Sex and Film [electronic resource] : The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema /
Forshaw, B.author.
Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic films, and an examination of how explicit imagery invaded modern mainstream cinema.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The 1930s: From Mae West to the Legion of Decency; 2. Getting it Past the Puritans: The 1940s; 3. The Kinsey Era: The 1950s; 4. Pushing the Boundaries: Preminger the Rebel; 5. This Property is Condemned: Tennessee Williams; 6. Arthouse Cinema in Italy: The New Explicitness; 7. Sex à la Français; 8. World Cinema Strategies: Britain and America from the 1960s; 9. World Cinema Strategies: Europe; 10. Stretching the Parameters: Bergman and Oshima; 11. The 1970s: Exploitation Joins the Mainstream; 12. Vixens and Valleys: Russ Meyer's Cinema
13. British Smut14. The Porn Revolution; 15. Sex Moves Centre Stage: The 1980s and 1990s; 16. Anything Goes: The Twenty-first Century; 17. The End of Sex? The New Puritanism; 18. Painful Odysseys; Appendices; Appendix 1: Selected Films; Appendix 2: Continental Icons of the Seductive; Selected Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers' circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic films, and an examination of how explicit imagery invaded modern mainstream cinema.
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