Sex and film
Subtitle: the erotic in British, American and world cinema
By: Barry Forshaw, independent writer and journalist, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781137390059
Subjects: Sex in motion pictures; Erotic films; History and criticism; Motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema is a frank, comprehensive and insightful analysis of the cinema's long love affair with the erotic - and how society is reflected through the many and bitter censorship battles that accompanied all attempts by filmmakers to broaden the limits of what is acceptable. Barry Forshaw's lively and scholarly study moves from the sexual abandon of the silent era and the 1930s through the enforced innocence resulting from the restrictive Hays code (and the ingenious attempts by filmmakers to circumvent censorship) and the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors such as Ingmar Bergman in the 1950s and 1960s. The book highlights all the key moments in this incendiary area, including the shocking exploitation and pornographic movies of the 1970s, while a discussion of the graphic and explicit imagery of today's mainstream cinema takes the book up to the present - and beyond"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The 1930s: Mae West, Garbo, Harlow, Dietrich and the Coming of the Legion of Decency; title: Getting it Past the Bluenoses: The 1940s; title: The Kinsey Era: The 1950s; title: Pushing the Boundaries: Preminger the Rebel; title: This Property is Condemned: Tennessee Williams; title: Arthouse cinema: the New Explicitness; title: Sex à la Français; title: World Cinema Strategies: Britain and America: The 1960s; title: World Cinema Strategies: Europe; title: No Fun Being a Pornographer: Ingmar Bergman and Nagisa Oshima; title: The 1970s: Exploitation Joins the Mainstream; title: Vixens and Valleys: Russ Meyer's Cinema; title: British Smut; title: The Porn Revolution; title: Sex in the Mainstream: The 80s and 90s; title: Anything Goes: the 21st Century; title: The End of Sex: The New Puritanism; title: Painful Odysseys.