The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television

by Shelton Waldrep

Book Overview

As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-sc ne of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501377361
• ISBN13: 9781501377365
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"