Film and Sexual Politics.

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Author / Creator:Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2006.
Description:1 online resource (266 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169012
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ISBN:9781443804059
1443804053
128203572X
9781282035720
9786612035722
6612035722
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Film and Sexual Politics: A Critical Reader features a variety of noteworthy critical essays that explore the evolution, representation, and social construction of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the early twenty-first century. This collection investigates the complex relations between film form/style and sexual politics (past and present), as well as the ideological and social ramifications of those relations for the lived realities of individuals in th ...
Other form:Print version: Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. Film and Sexual Politics. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2006 9781847180377
Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking screwball comedy / Jane M. Greene
  • Commodity kisses : love scenes in the films of Warner Baxter (a pre-code/post-code analysis) / Catherine R. Burke
  • Queering Citizen Kane / David M. Lugowski
  • The love between Warden and Prew that dare not speak its name : containing homosexuality as subtext in From here to eternity / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
  • "To God there is no zero" : The incredible shrinking man and allegories of male anxiety in postwar America / Nate Brennan
  • Visible virgins : how Hollywood showed the unshowable in late 1950s films / Tamar Jeffers McDonald
  • Vice's devices : the sexual politics of obscenity in postwar Los Angeles / Whitney Strub
  • The good, the bad, and the unborn : the abortion issue in U.S. cinema / Heather MacGibbon
  • Dangerous bodies : the regulation and contestation of women's sexuality at the movies in Virginia / Melissa Ooten
  • Reconnecting the body "in" to the body "of" Pasolini with Porcile / Mattias Frey
  • "Tell me I'm a man!" : homoeroticism and masochism in Jackass the movie / Mary E. Pagano
  • Women and the law : spectatorship and resistance in Female perversions and A question of silence / Cynthia Lucia
  • Marianism in the move Elizabeth : femininity, the law of the father, and the maternal semiotic / Jaime Bihlmeyer
  • Penetration, conception, and the creation of a subservient female : a music-image analysis of The matrix / Jack M. Beckham II
  • Is Malkovich Malkovich? : sexual identity on a string / Sarah E.S. Sinwell
  • Blurring the lines of sexuality and patriarchal power : alternative power structures in My own private Idaho / Christine E. Pace
  • Rooms with different views : restoring gay images to the past in contemporary costume film / Alina Patriche
  • Skin-to-skin : bareback community, pornography, subjectivity / Hollis Griffin.