Screening Sex

Linda Williams

Published by Duke University Press 2008

Screening Sex

Linda Williams

In the series A John Hope Franklin Center Book

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388630

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About this book

Looks at the cinematic conventions for portraying sex acts from early representations of the kiss to more explicit depictions of sex in contemporary art films.

Author / Editor information

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Porn Studies, also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.”

Reviews

“Screening Sex is a truly remarkable follow-up to Linda Williams’s groundbreaking book Hard Core. It reaffirms her place as the leading feminist scholar of the history and theory of on-screen sex. Not that it was ever in doubt.”— Jane Gaines, author of Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era

“Linda Williams is a terrific storyteller about sex, and, as she tracks the growth of her own cinematically mediated sexual consciousness, we go to the movies with her, imagining as though for the first time new encounters with explicitness, new sexual knowledge, and new spectatorial sensations.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

“With Screening Sex, Linda Williams establishes herself as not only the preeminent scholar of cinematic eroticism, but also the most significant voice in cinema studies of her generation.”— Eric Schaefer, author of “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1958

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction to Screening Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896–1963) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961–1971) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
3 Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971–1972) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
4 Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
5 Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
6 Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986–2005) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
7 Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art Film since the 1990s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Other: 129 illustrations

eBook

Published: September 23, 2008
ISBN: 9780822388630