Title: Sexual visuality from literature to film, 1850-1950
First published: 2004
Description: "Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950 explores the ways in which Gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to foreground our unsightly desires. By doing so, the texts challenged sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain types of people. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see. The book is a must-read for scholars and students of visuality, gender and sexuality."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Sex in literature, English fiction, Sex in motion pictures, History and criticism, History, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Motion pictures, history
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR878.S49 D46 2004