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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Summary |
Film and Sexual Politics: A Critical Reader features a variety of noteworthy critical essays that explore the evolution, representation, and social construction of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the early twenty-first century. This collection investigates the complex relations between film form/style and sexual politics (past and present), as well as the ideological and social ramifications of those relations for the lived realities of individuals in th ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Rethinking screwball comedy / Jane M. Greene -- Commodity kisses : love scenes in the films of Warner Baxter (a pre-code/post-code analysis) / Catherine R. Burke -- Queering Citizen Kane / David M. Lugowski -- The love between Warden and Prew that dare not speak its name : containing homosexuality as subtext in From here to eternity / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- "To God there is no zero" : The incredible shrinking man and allegories of male anxiety in postwar America / Nate Brennan -- Visible virgins : how Hollywood showed the unshowable in late 1950s films / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Vice's devices : the sexual politics of obscenity in postwar Los Angeles / Whitney Strub -- The good, the bad, and the unborn : the abortion issue in U.S. cinema / Heather MacGibbon -- Dangerous bodies : the regulation and contestation of women's sexuality at the movies in Virginia / Melissa Ooten -- Reconnecting the body "in" to the body "of" Pasolini with Porcile / Mattias Frey -- "Tell me I'm a man!" : homoeroticism and masochism in Jackass the movie / Mary E. Pagano -- Women and the law : spectatorship and resistance in Female perversions and A question of silence / Cynthia Lucia -- Marianism in the move Elizabeth : femininity, the law of the father, and the maternal semiotic / Jaime Bihlmeyer -- Penetration, conception, and the creation of a subservient female : a music-image analysis of The matrix / Jack M. Beckham II -- Is Malkovich Malkovich? : sexual identity on a string / Sarah E.S. Sinwell -- Blurring the lines of sexuality and patriarchal power : alternative power structures in My own private Idaho / Christine E. Pace -- Rooms with different views : restoring gay images to the past in contemporary costume film / Alina Patriche -- Skin-to-skin : bareback community, pornography, subjectivity / Hollis Griffin. |
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Sex in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. Film and Sexual Politics. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2006 9781847180377 |
ISBN |
9781443804059 (electronic book) |
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1443804053 (electronic book) |
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128203572X |
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9781282035720 |
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