Title: Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film /
Authors: Kelly, Casey Ryan, 1979-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Virginity in motion pictures.; Sex in motion pictures.; Sex in motion pictures; Virginity in motion pictures
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) -- Monstrous girls and absentee fathers: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives.