Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late '50s through the present, from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus, Young argues that cinema participated in the transformation of the sexual subject while showing how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.
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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.
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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
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"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies 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."
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“Damon R. Young's beautifully written book shows how we might find the visual economy of neoliberalism compressed into the sexual charge of films from the 1950s to the present. This is a gorgeous book of queer theory and film criticism that tracks the wayward travels of sexual difference and neoliberal sexuality through a wide range of visual works. Extravagant and precise, this book is indispensable reading for our times.”
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ISBN
9781478001676
Publisert
2018-12-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
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771 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet

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Biographical note

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