Cinerotic

Eroticism in Films and Video Games
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-86821-825-1
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Literatur, Imagination, Realität

Movies dealing with eroticism are as old as film history itself. Eroticism has always been one of the most popular subjects and can be found in a broad range of film genres from voyeuristic movies of the silent era to romantic love stories, intimate dramas, sex comedies, erotic thrillers, sexploitation films and recent artcore movies. The popularity and long tradition of cinematic eroticism is, however, not reflected in academic research. On the contrary, compared to other film genres erotic cinema has been largely ignored by film scholars. Much has been written about eroticism in literature and theatre, while in films, and video games for that matter, this subject still seems to be a terra incognita . The main concern of the present volume, therefore, is to initiate a revaluation of this underrated chapter of film history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabris, Angela

Helbig, Jörg

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction................................................................................................................... 1 ANGELA FABRIS AND JÖRG HELBIG From erotikós to sexout : Literary Knowledge about Eroticism ...................................... 9 SUSANNE BACH Eroticism and Film MA L'AMOR MIO NON MUORE! (1913), IL FUOCO (1915) and the Beginning of Eroticism in Early Italian Cinema .............................................. 17 ANGELA FABRIS The Diva and the Seduction of Female Sickness in Early Italian Cinema ................... 33 CATHERINE RAMSEY-PORTOLANO "We love beautiful ladies, and how!" Cinema nuovo , Cinematic Eroticism and Masculinities in Post-war Italy .............................................................................. 45 ELISA MANDELLI AND VALENTINA RE "The Sexiest Film Ever?" How Michelangelo Antonioni Sexed up British Cinema .... 61 JÖRG HELBIG Jane Fonda's Orgasms: Bad Sex and Good Sex in the New Hollywood ...................... 73 LINDA WILLIAMS Of Sex Objects and Sex Subjects: (Fe)male Gaze and the Capitalisation of the Body in Jerzy Skolimowskis DEEP END ......................... 87 WILLEM STRANK Sexual Dystopia and Excess in the Italian Erotic Comedy of the 1970s .................... 103 GIOVANNA MAINA AND FEDERICO ZECCA Shakespearean Double-Play and Illicit Desires: Erotic Twinship in Lucio Fulci's LA PRETORA ........................................................... 113 WIELAND SCHWANEBECK The giallo erotico : Seduction and Submission all'italiana ........................................ 127 GEORGI WEHR The Erotic Triangle: The Feminine Body, the Cinematic Gaze and the Video Camera ................................................................................................ 137 ANGELA KREWANI "Maybe it is about you." Intertextuality, Arousal, and World Experience in Peter Strickland's THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY ......................................................... 147 BENJAMIN MOLDENHAUER No Sex, Please! Sex and the Erotic in Irish Film and Television ............................... 159 Stephen Doheny and Mark Schreiber Eroticism and Videogames For(e)Play: Remediations of Ludic Intercourse ......................................................... 175 FELIX SCHNIZ The Casanova Fallacies: Hegemonic Masculinity and Sexual Agency in Videogame Design ................................................................................................. 189 RENÉ REINHOLD SCHALLEGGER From Dating Simulators to Milestones of Video Game Culture: Dating Patterns and Eroticism as Reward in Games .................................................. 203 MARIE-LUISE MEIER Notes on Contributors ................................................................................................ 219