
Real Sex Films
The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-19-024461-3 (ISBN)
Description
Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both 'mutual understanding' and 'galvanizing extension' in ways of seeing this object of 'real-sex cinema'. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary co-operation and critique, and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel, as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy, desire, risk and transgression. This is a book which substantively, methodologically and theoretically is embracing and engaging in its consideration of the images, ethics, 'double standards' and embodiments of brutal cinema. Written in a style free of jargon, and crossing the boundaries of film studies, media and cultural studies, the ethnographic turn, risk sociology, feminist psychoanalytical and geopolitical studies, this is a book for students, academics as well as general and professional audiences.
Reviews / Votes
Provides both academics and film buffs with an interesting look at the films that toe the line on what [is] acceptable in cinema. * Dakota Ratley, Communication Booknotes Quarterly * Media studies desperately needs more rainbow scholarship like the impeccable work Tulloch and Middleweek have done here, especially on experiences that are so central to the human condition: intimacy, desire, and sex. * Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam, author of Media Life *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-024461-3 (9780190244613)
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Persons
John Tulloch is Professor Emeritus in Communication at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in Communication, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Belinda Middleweek is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Belinda Middleweek is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Author
Emeritus ProfessorEmeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University
Senior Lecturer, School of CommunicationSenior Lecturer, School of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Intimacy: the Film
2. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality and Risk in Modernity
3. Intimacy and Romance in Film Theory
4a. 'Intimacy is what hurts when it's gone': approaching social audience analysis (Part 1)
4b. 'A man didn't make this film alone': Intertextual dialogue (Part 2
5. Brutal Intimacy: French Corporeal Cinema
6. 'Desperate for Intimacy': Loneliness and Fun in 9 Songs and Shortbus
7. Intimate Pleasures and the Madness of Love: Narrative in Ken Park and Irreversible
8. Actors and Sexual Intimacies: Trust, Mistrust and the Double Standards of Love
9. Secret Intimacies and Addictions in Le Secret
10. Beyond High Theories of Intimacy: authorship, performance and 'obscenity' in The Piano Teacher
11. Desire, Intimacy and the Gaze in the work of Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Introduction
1. Intimacy: the Film
2. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality and Risk in Modernity
3. Intimacy and Romance in Film Theory
4a. 'Intimacy is what hurts when it's gone': approaching social audience analysis (Part 1)
4b. 'A man didn't make this film alone': Intertextual dialogue (Part 2
5. Brutal Intimacy: French Corporeal Cinema
6. 'Desperate for Intimacy': Loneliness and Fun in 9 Songs and Shortbus
7. Intimate Pleasures and the Madness of Love: Narrative in Ken Park and Irreversible
8. Actors and Sexual Intimacies: Trust, Mistrust and the Double Standards of Love
9. Secret Intimacies and Addictions in Le Secret
10. Beyond High Theories of Intimacy: authorship, performance and 'obscenity' in The Piano Teacher
11. Desire, Intimacy and the Gaze in the work of Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index