| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Screen sexuality: flesh, feathers, and fantasies / John Baxter -- A history of censorship of the American film / Arthur Lennig -- The contemporary movie rating system in America / Evelyn Renold -- Sex, morality, and the movies / Lawrence Becker -- Troubled sexuality in the popular Hollywood feature / Thomas R. Atkins -- The sex genre: traditional and modern variations on the flesh film / Wayne A. Losano -- Monster movies: a sexual theory / Walter Evans -- The boys on the bandwagon: homosexuality in the movies / Gene D. Phillips -- Sex in the contemporary European film / Lester Keyser -- I am curious yellow: a practical education / David S. Lenfest -- Midnight cowboy / Foster Hirsch -- Carnal knowledge / Richard McGuinnes -- Deep throat: hard to swallow / Ellen Willis -- Last tango in Paris: the skull beneath the skin flick / Jack Fisher -- Sexuality in film: reconsiderations after seeing Cries and whispers / David R. Slavitt |
| Summary |
Generations of movie-goers found models for their lives and loves in the powerful images in darkened theatres--images as potent as the viewers' own dreams and as basically entwined with matters of sex and identity. In entertaining, intelligent, lavishly illustrated essays, the authors of Sexuality in the Movies examine the complex evolution of sex and sensuality on the screen ln relation to the changing, often ambivalent values of the public. Part I considers the history of censorship in the movies and the significance of what was belng censored--including an insider's expose of the contemporary rating system. Part II deals with specific genres--what is really going on in the popular Hollywood feature, the flesh film, the monster movie (a fascinating reading), the underground film, and European films--as well as with the treatment of homosexuality in the movies. Part III offers close studies of six major films, outstanding either artistically or as landmarks of sexual expression. A lively, varied, and comprehensive analysis of sexuality in the movies, from early shorts like The Kiss and Love in a Hammock to contemporary achievements like Cries and Whispers and Last Tango in Paris. Over 150 photographs, many of them rarely seen |
| Analysis |
Film history, theory & criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures
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Erotischer Film
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Seksualiteit.
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Filmkunst.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Atkins, Thomas R., 1939- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780253050595 |
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0253050596 |
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