Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

by Casey Ryan Kelly

Book Overview

Winner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association

From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813575117
• ISBN13: 9780813575117
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher