Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

Damon R. Young

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

Damon R. Young

In the series Theory Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002765

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About this book

Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.

Author / Editor information

Damon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages."

-- Guy Davidson Continuum

"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible."

-- Ricky Varghese Public

"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed."

-- Nick Davis GLQ

"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex."

-- Sam Hunter Film & History

"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies."

-- Haley Hvdson Synoptique

"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies."

-- Nick Rees-Roberts Journal of the History of Sexuality

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: Making Sex Public Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I WOMEN
1 AUTONOMOUS PLEASURES Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 FACING THE BODY IN 1975 Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
PART II CRIMINALS
3 THE FORM OF THE SOCIAL Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4 CRUISING AND THE FRATERNAL SOCIAL CONTRACT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
PART III CITIZENS
5 WORD IS OUT, OR QUEER PRIVACY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
6 SEX IN PUBLIC Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
EPILOGUE: Postcinematic Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Other: 128 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 4, 2018
ISBN: 9781478002765