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.
Edited by:
Lindsay Coleman
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v.19
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9781780766393
ISBN 10: 1780766394
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Lindsay Coleman Maitresse Barbara Creed Baise-Moi Jacob Held Shortbus Linda Ruth Williams Lust, Caution Sean Redmond Twentynine Palms John McGowan-Hartmann Sex, Narrative and Harmonic Discord: 9 Songs Darren Kerr Explicit Teen Sex and Utopian Problem-solving in Ken Park Claire Hines The Sickest Film in the History of Cinema?: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist Clarissa Smith Irreversible Dave Andrews Dogtooth Lindsay Coleman Shame/Leap Year Taine Duncan Filmography Index
Lindsay Coleman is a film and television academic at the University of Melbourne. The books he has contributed to include The War Body on Screen, Taking South Park Seriously and Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity.
