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Sex Radical Cinema.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253018113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sex Radical CinemaDDC classification:
  • 791.43/6538
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S45S547
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recent Changes in the Representation of Sex and Politics in American Cinema -- 1 America's Virginity Fetish and the Mysteries of Child Molestation -- 2 Sex Trafficking Films, or Taken for a Ride -- 3 Sex and Antimilitarism -- 4 Interracial Sex and Architectures of American Horror -- 5 Tim Burton's Films, Children, and Perversity -- Conclusion: The Future, No Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: By examining such popular film and television shows as Mystic River, The Wire, Fifty Shades of Grey, Batman Returns, and the HBO hits, Sex and the City and Girls, Siegel takes the discussion of radical sex in the movies out of the margins of political discussions and puts it in the center, where, she argues, it has belonged all along.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recent Changes in the Representation of Sex and Politics in American Cinema -- 1 America's Virginity Fetish and the Mysteries of Child Molestation -- 2 Sex Trafficking Films, or Taken for a Ride -- 3 Sex and Antimilitarism -- 4 Interracial Sex and Architectures of American Horror -- 5 Tim Burton's Films, Children, and Perversity -- Conclusion: The Future, No Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

By examining such popular film and television shows as Mystic River, The Wire, Fifty Shades of Grey, Batman Returns, and the HBO hits, Sex and the City and Girls, Siegel takes the discussion of radical sex in the movies out of the margins of political discussions and puts it in the center, where, she argues, it has belonged all along.

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