The new pornographies: Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film

by Martin Crowley and Victoria Best

Book Overview

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719073995
• ISBN13: 9780719073991
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"