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  title info:
    title: Making sex public, and other cinematic fantasies
  name:
    name part: Young, Damon R.
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 this book, the author tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives. On the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence, while 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 1950s through the present, from "And God Created Woman" and "Barbarella" to "Cruising" and "Shortbus," the author 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: making sex public -- Autonomous pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the liberal sexual subject -- Facing the body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the antinomies of sex -- The form of the social: heterosexuality and homo-aesthetics in Plein Soleil -- Cruising and the fraternal social contract -- Word is out, or queer privacy -- Sex in public: through the window from psycho to shortbus -- Epilogue: postcinematic sexuality.
  note: Damon R. Young.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Sex in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PN1995.9.S45 Y68 2018
  classification: 791.43/6538
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Theory Q
  identifier: 9781478001331
  identifier: 147800133X
  identifier: 9781478001676
  identifier: 1478001674
  identifier: 2018012344
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180322
    record change date: 20190422105059.0
    record identifier: in00004052007