Basic Instinct
Published on 18. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-230-33692-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the first in-depth study of Basic Instinct (1992), one of the earliest mainstream erotic thrillers, Stevie Simkin addresses the controversy around the film's sexual content (particularly the notorious interrogation scene) and its allegedly homophobic and misogynistic depiction of lesbian and female characters.
More details
Series
Edition
2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
223 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-33692-6 (9780230336926)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-29609-2
Schweitzer Classification
Person
STEVIE SIMKIN is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of, amongst other works, A Preface to Marlowe (1999), Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook (2001), Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (2005), and, also in the Controversies series, a book on Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.
Content
Contents.- PART I: MAKING BASIC INSTINCT.- From Love Hurts to Basic Instinct: Joe Eszterhas.- Casting Catherine 'What Exactly Did You Have in Mind?'.- Shooting the Sex Scenes.- 'We Live Happily Ever After?'.- PART II: PROTESTING BASIC INSTINCT.- Production and Protests: the Context.- Protesting Basic Instinct.- Summit Meeting.- 'Political Correctness' and Free Speech Basic Instinct and Homophobia Disruption on Location.- PART III: CENSORING BASIC INSTINCT.- Certificates and Ratings.- Basic Instinct at the MPAA.- Close Analysis: The Scenes Cut at CARA's Request.- Basic Instinct at the BBFC.- Media Effects?.- PART IV: REVIEWING BASIC INSTINCT.- Opening and Reception.- US Press Reaction.- Basic Instinct and the UK Press.- Conclusion.- PART V: READING BASIC INSTINCT.- Back to the Future.- Basic Instinct and the Violent Woman.- Basic Instinct as Postmodern Neo-Noir.- Catherine and the Femme Fatale Archetype: the Threat to Patriarchy.- The Interrogation Scene.- Beth: the Domesticated Female.- Basic Instinct's Viewing Pleasures.- 'Just an Old City Cowboy'.- PART VI: THE LEGACY OF BASIC INSTINCT.- Box Office Risk Addiction.- The Enduring Myth of the Lethal Woman.