Sex radical cinema / Carol Siegel
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
Call No: 749.0 SIE
Author: Siegel, Carol
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PhysDes: 230, x ; illus. ; 23 cm
Subject: SEX IN FILMS. USA; BURTON, TIM; PORNOGRAPHY; A MA SOEUR (FR/IT/SP, Catherine Breillat, 2000); EASTERN PROMISES (UK/CN, DAVID CRONENBERG, 2007); PANIC ROOM (US, David Fincher, 2002); PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, THE (US, Wes Craven, 1991); THIRTEEN (US, Catherine Hardwicke, 2003); MYSTERIOUS SKIN (US/NE, Gregg Araki, 2004); MYSTIC RIVER (US, Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Notes: In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of "sex radicalism," Carol Siegel explores how representations of sexually explicit content on film have shaped American cultural visions of sex and sexual politics in the 21st century. Siegel distinguishes between a liberal approach to visual representations, which has over-emphasized normative equal opportunity while undervaluing our distinctive erotic selves, and a radical approach to visual representation, which portrays forbidden sexualities and desires. She illustrates how visual media participates in and even drives political policies related to pedophilia, prostitution, interracial relationships, and war. 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. -- publisher's web site
Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Recent Changes in the Representation of Sex and Politics in American Cinema 1. The Sexuality of Minors: Family Values and Mysteries of Pedophilia 2. Sex Trafficking Films, Or Taken for a Ride 3. Sex and Anti-Militarism 4. Interracial Sex and Architectures of American Horror 5. Tim Burton's Films, Children, and Perversity Conclusion: The Future, No Future Notes Bibliography Index
Sleeping with strangers : how the movies shaped desire / David Thomson
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Call No: 747.6(73) THO
Author: Thomson, David
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
PhysDes: 352 pages : illustrated ; 24cm
Subject: SEX IN FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. USA; MEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; NUDITY IN FILMS; STARS. USA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA
Summary: In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires. -- publisher's web site