"A John Hope Franklin Center book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-395) and index.
Contents:
Of kisses and ellipses : the long adolescence of American movies (1896-1963) -- Going all the way : carnal knowledge on American screens (1961-1971) -- Going further : Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971-1972) -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) -- Hard-core eroticism : In the realm of the senses (1976) -- Primal scenes on American screens (1986-2005) -- Philosophy in the bedroom : hard-core art since the 1990s -- Conclusion: now playing on a small screen near you!
Summary:
"For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations." "Combining stories of her own coming of age as a moviegoer with film history, cultural history, and readings of significant films, Williams presents a fascinating history of the on-screen kiss, a look at the shift from adolescent kisses to more grown-up displays of sex, and a comparison of the "tasteful" Hollywood sexual interlude with sexuality as represented in sexploitation, Blaxploitation, and avant-garde films. By understanding screening sex as both revelation and concealment, Williams has written the definitive study of sex at the movies."--BOOK JACKET.
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