| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: the cinema of abstinence -- Melodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012) -- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005) -- The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives |
| Summary |
Abstinence Cinema tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. Locating these regressive sexual politics in everything from Twilight to Taken to Superbad, Casey Ryan Kelly examines how these films echo the rhetoric of the evangelical abstinence-only movement, then analyzes how they are particularly disempowering to young women, who are judged strictly on the basis of their sexuality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
Virginity in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Sex in motion pictures
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Virginity in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015024451 |
| ISBN |
9780813575131 |
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0813575133 |
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9780813575124 |
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0813575125 |
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