Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film /
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the cinema of abstinence
- Melodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012)
- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005)
- Monstrous girls and absentee fathers: The possession (2012)
- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008)
- Sexploitation in abstinence satires
- Conclusion: counternarratives.