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Screening sex / Linda Williams.

By: Williams, Linda, 1946-Material type: TextTextPublication details: North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2008Description: x, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780822342854 (pbk.) :; 0822342855 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Film theory & criticism | Popular culture | Sex in motion pictures United StatesDDC classification: 791.436538
Contents:
1 Of kisses and ellipses: the long adolescence of American movies (1896-1963) - 2 Going all the way: carnal knowledge on American screens (1961-1971) - 3 Going further: Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971-1972) - 4 Make love, not war: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) - 5 Hard-core eroticism: in the realm of the senses (1976) - 6 Primal scenes on American screens (1986-2005) - 7 Philosophy in the bedroom: hard-core art since the 1990s.
Summary: Linda Williams explains the history of love and sex as portrayed in American films, from depicting the kiss to the full act and even what used to be called pornography. Illustrated with black and white photographs which are often explicit.
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Paperback.

Includes bibliography and index.

1 Of kisses and ellipses: the long adolescence of American movies (1896-1963) - 2 Going all the way: carnal knowledge on American screens (1961-1971) - 3 Going further: Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971-1972) - 4 Make love, not war: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) - 5 Hard-core eroticism: in the realm of the senses (1976) - 6 Primal scenes on American screens (1986-2005) - 7 Philosophy in the bedroom: hard-core art since the 1990s.

Linda Williams explains the history of love and sex as portrayed in American films, from depicting the kiss to the full act and even what used to be called pornography. Illustrated with black and white photographs which are often explicit.

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