Cinerotic

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

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: LIR. 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