Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

by Damon R. Young

Book Overview

Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women's bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001674
• ISBN13: 9781478001676
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary