Virgin territory
Subtitle: representing sexual inexperience in film
By: edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and television series; Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780814333181
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tamar Jeffers McDonald; title: Velvet's cherry : Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood / Gaylyn Studlar; title: The innocent is a broad : American virgins in a global context / Ilana Nash; title: Virgin springs : a survey of teen films' quest for sexcess / Timothy Shary; title: Postwar virginity and the "Marjorie" phenomenon / Rebecca Sullivan; title: One very chic hell : revisiting the issue of virginity in Bonjour Tristesse / Alisia G. Chase; title: Performances of desire and inexperience : Doris Day's fluctuating filmic virginity / Tamar Jeffers McDonald; title: Fresh meat? dissecting the horror movie virgin / Pete Falconer; title: Don't touch me : violating boundaries in Roman Polanski's Repulsion / Nina Martin; title: Orgasmic (teenage) virgins : masturbation and virginity in contemporary American cinema / Greg Tuck; title: Love's labor's lost? early 1980s representations of girls' sexual decision making in Fast times at Ridgemont High and Little darlings / Lisa M. Dresner; title: Was she or wasn't she? virginity and identity in the critical reception of Elizabeth (1998) / Shelley Cobb; title: The window and the door / Andrea Sabbadini; title: Irreconcilable feminisms and the construction of a cultural memory of virginity's loss: À ma soeur! and Thirteen / Carol Siegel; title: The new road to sexual ecstasy : virginity and genre in The 40-year-old virgin / Celestino Deleyto.