Full Description
As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit sex scenes since the 1990s, some of such scenes featuring the performance of actual sex acts. The incidence of sex in narratively powerful, resonant visual media can no longer be dismissed as a trend. What was once an aesthetic weapon in the arsenal of provocateurs is now frequently integrated seamlessly into the mise-en-scène and exposition of widely viewed and culturally significant films and television series. Intercourse in Television and Film: The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts analyzes the aesthetic and narrative contexts for the visual media presentation of the sexual act, both those which are non-simulated and those which are explicit to that point that their simulation is brought into question by the viewer. In this book, questions involving the performance choices of actors, the framing and editing of the sex act, and the director's attempts at integrating sexuality into the overall narrative structure as well as their effects are explored.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: Sex and Cinematic Traditions
Chapter One: Fine Arts and Ugly Arts: Blue Is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche's Corporeal State of the Nation
Tim Palmer
Chapter Two: The Heroine's Journey: Taboo Sex and Characterization in Dogtooth
Lindsay Coleman
PART TWO: Sex in Queer Cinema
Chapter Three: Blurred Lines: The Case of Stranger by the Lake
Connor Winterton
Chapter Four: Documenting Everyday Male Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Cinema
Sarah Janssen
PART THREE: Sex Documentary/Docudrama
Chapter Five: Cruising the Interior. Leather Bar: Gay Sex, Then and Then Again
Evangelos Tziallas
Chapter Six: Heterotopias of Confession: Whores' Glory, Sex, and Dispossession
Kyle Sittig
PART FOUR: Sex on Television
Chapter Seven: "Monsters all, are we not?": Sex and the Human Connection in Penny Dreadful
Amber Strother
Chapter Eight: Two Funerals and a Wedding: Not So Nice Jewish Girls in Transparent and Broad City
Carol Siegel
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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