Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema
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Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema

Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema

Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique

About this book

With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives are pornographic. This book explores how, rather than being pornographic, explicit sex can be an essential element of cinematic storytelling today. Offering detailed analysis of how choices are made in the presentation of explicit sex in often very controversial films, such as "Shame", "Baise-Moi", "Antichrist", "Dogtooth" and "Lust, Caution", the expert contributors - including Barbara Creed, Jacob Held and Linda Ruth Williams - show how sexual content can aid characterisation, highlight themes, and provide events that serve to develop plot. The impact of explicit sex as an element of a film's narrative is also revealed to be assisted by effective, nuanced performances and the incisive deployment of directorial technique. Together they detail through the fundamentals of cinema the shot by shot, moment by moment manner in which explicit sex can be an essential component of a dramatically powerful narrative.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781780766409
eBook ISBN
9780857728135
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 MaƮtresse: Pornography, Ritual and the Question of the Animal Barbara Creed
  10. 2 What is and is not Porn: Sex, Narrative, and Baise-moi Jacob M. Held
  11. 3 Perverse Passions: Catherine Breillatā€™s Une vieille maĆ®tresse Deborah Walker-Morrison
  12. 4 Horrible Sex: The Sexual Relationship in New Extremism Lisa Coulthard and Chelsea Birks
  13. 5 Shortbus: Smart Cinema and Sexual Utopia Linda Ruth Williams
  14. 6 Becoming Animal in Lust, Caution Sean Redmond
  15. 7 Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Analysing Aesthetics, Performance and Pleasure in 9 Songs Beth Johnson
  16. 8 Tragedy of Hands: Rape in Gaspar NoĆ©ā€™s IrrĆ©versible David Andrews
  17. 9 Antichrist, Explicit Sex, Anxiety, and Care Torben Grodal
  18. 10 Explicit Teen Sex and Utopian Problem-solving in Ken Park Claire Hines
  19. 11 Witness to the Pain: How Explicit Sex Scenes in Michael Roweā€™s Leap Year Demonstrate Vision Beyond Visibility Taine Duncan
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover