Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-195) and index.
Contents:
Pleasures and dangers : the erotic thriller as a women's genre -- How to be a good female heterosexual : the erotic thriller's instructional discourses -- The subject of passion, the object of murder : refashioning the gothic and film noir genres -- Viewing the problem : therapeutic discourses and soft-core's "talking cure" -- Surveillance, subjectivity, and soft-core : "you like to watch, don't you?"
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