"<i>Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies</i> 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, <i>Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies</i>, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." - Ricky Varghese (Public) "<i>Making Sex Public</i> 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) "<i>Making Sex Public</i> 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 <i>Making Sex Public</i> 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)