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The History of Sex in American Film
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780275992262
- Subject Area
- Performing Arts, Social Science
- Publication Name
- History of Sex in American Film
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Film / General, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0275992268
ISBN-13
9780275992262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59073212
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Publication Name
History of Sex in American Film
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2007-016352
Reviews
'Pennington traces the development of visual and thematic sexual content, the ensuing conservative vs. liberal controversies, and the impact of resulting censorship codes and legal rulings with their shifting guidelines. Using numerous in-depth examples of films, citing specific plotlines, and offering pertinent descriptions of relevant scenes. Pennington thoughtfully analyzes the interrelationship of film and American society in terms of sexual attitudes and psychology, examining changing values, prejudices, boundaries, and norms within historical and cultural contexts....Throughout, he reveals the close but complex alliance between film and life. For academic and larg film collections?-Library Journal, "Pennington delivers an overview of the intersection of sexual mores, censorship, and film portrayals of sexuality. The volume is a useful introductory tool.... Recommended. Undergraduates; general readers." -- Choice "Pennington traces the development of visual and thematic sexual content, the ensuing conservative vs. liberal controversies, and the impact of resulting censorship codes and legal rulings with their shifting guidelines. Using numerous in-depth examples of films, citing specific plotlines, and offering pertinent descriptions of relevant scenes. Pennington thoughtfully analyzes the interrelationship of film and American society in terms of sexual attitudes and psychology, examining changing values, prejudices, boundaries, and norms within historical and cultural contexts....Throughout, he reveals the close but complex alliance between film and life. For academic and large film collections" -- Library Journal "This work by Pennington is a social and cultural history of the representation of sex and its regulation in American cinema. She takes a chronological approach to the film industry's self-censorship regimes through the mid-1960s, non-mainstream film most affected by obscenity law, sexual themes in the films that helped put an end to the Production Code, changing American attitudes towards sex and their reflection in film through the 1980s, and the present-day conservative counterattack on liberal sexual realignment as it has played out in film. Remaining chapters adopt a more thematic approach and offer analysis of the revision of sexual representation of the past following the demise of the Production Code and representations of homosexuality, adultery, and pedophilia." -- Reference & Research Book News, "This work by Pennington is a social and cultural history of the representation of sex and its regulation in American cinema. She takes a chronological approach to the film industry's self-censorship regimes through the mid-1960s, non-mainstream film most affected by obscenity law, sexual themes in the films that helped put an end to the Production Code, changing American attitudes towards sex and their reflection in film through the 1980s, and the present-day conservative counterattack on liberal sexual realignment as it has played out in film. Remaining chapters adopt a more thematic approach and offer analysis of the revision of sexual representation of the past following the demise of the Production Code and representations of homosexuality, adultery, and pedophilia." - Reference & Research Book News, "Pennington traces the development of visual and thematic sexual content, the ensuing conservative vs. liberal controversies, and the impact of resulting censorship codes and legal rulings with their shifting guidelines. Using numerous in-depth examples of films, citing specific plotlines, and offering pertinent descriptions of relevant scenes. Pennington thoughtfully analyzes the interrelationship of film and American society in terms of sexual attitudes and psychology, examining changing values, prejudices, boundaries, and norms within historical and cultural contexts….Throughout, he reveals the close but complex alliance between film and life. For academic and large film collections" - Library Journal, "Pennington delivers an overview of the intersection of sexual mores, censorship, and film portrayals of sexuality. The volume is a useful introductory tool…. Recommended. Undergraduates; general readers." - Choice
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.43/6538
Synopsis
Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad ways. A more complete understanding of the ways in which sex has been represented onscreen requires an approach that pays equal attention to cinematic techniques and to the diversity of sexual values and behaviors in American society. It is necessary to frame this discussion within the multiple contradictions of an industry that has both repressed and represented sex with equal fervor over the course of its history; of audiences that have both taken offense at and flocked to films with sexual themes; and a body politic that has regulated the sexual in popular culture even as its discourse has been saturated with sexual images and topics. The History of Sex in American Cinema moves seamlessly between general film and social history to clarify how exactly sex has been expressed cinematically, and how we have responded to those expressions as a culture. In March of 1965 the Supreme Court put into motion legal changes that marked the end of local film censorship as it had existed since the early years of the twentieth century. In Hollywood that same year, The Pawnbroker was released with a Production Code Seal of Approval, despite nudity that violated that Code. As sexual liberation occurred onscreen, parallel developments occurred in the way we lived our lives, and by the end of the 1960s Americans were having sex more often, and with more partners, than ever before. There was also now a public debate surrounding sexuality, and one of the loudest and most continually active voices in this debate was that of American film. This work begins with an examination of some of the earliest altercations in what later came to be known as the culture wars, and follows those skirmishes, more often than not provoked by American film, up to the modern day. By looking at how sex in the cinema has contributed to the demise of the fragile consensus between liberals and conservatives on freedom of expression, The History of Sex in American Film suggests a perspective from which today's culture wars can be better understood. This work combines close readings of many representative films-including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The Graduate , Blue Velvet , Philadelphia , L.A. Confidential , and Closer -with a social and historical account of the most significant changes in American sexual behavior and sexual representation over the past fifty years., Examines how American cinema has both affected and reflected the changing sexual values of this country since the sexual revolution
LC Classification Number
PN1995
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