Screening Sex

by Linda Williams

Book Overview

For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the renowned film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342855
• ISBN13: 9780822342854
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"