Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.

Title Film and Sexual Politics.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2006.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
text file
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 ...
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sex in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. Film and Sexual Politics. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2006 9781847180377
ISBN 9781443804059 (electronic book)
1443804053 (electronic book)
128203572X
9781282035720