Young Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0276-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Theory Q

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Damon R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Making Sex Public 1
Part I. Women
1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21
2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54
Part II. Criminals
3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95
4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122
Part III. Citizens
5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159
6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187
Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215
Notes 239
Bibliography 279
Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

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