Screening Sex
1st Edition
Published on 23. September 2008
424 pages
978-0-8223-8863-0 (ISBN)
Description
Looks at the cinematic conventions for portraying sex acts from early representations of the kiss to more explicit depictions of sex in contemporary art films.
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Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Porn Studies, also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible."
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Of Kissing and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896-1963) 25
2. Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961-1971) 68
3. Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971-1972) 112
4. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) 155
5. Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 181
6. Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986-2005) 216
7. Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990s 258
Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! 299
Notes 327
Bibliography 379
Index 397
Introduction 1
1. Of Kissing and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896-1963) 25
2. Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961-1971) 68
3. Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971-1972) 112
4. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) 155
5. Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 181
6. Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986-2005) 216
7. Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990s 258
Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! 299
Notes 327
Bibliography 379
Index 397
