Sex Scene
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5654-7
Editor: Eric Schaefer
Title: Sex Scene
Subtitle: Media and the Sexual Revolution
Place of publication: Durham and London
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year of publication: 2014 (15032014)
Format: 152x229mm (trimmed)
Pages: 470
Binding: paperbound in colour cover
Cover: Publicity still from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). Courtesy of Photofest
Weight: 663 gr.
Original price: €9,01
Supplier: Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Order Number: 68013946
Order Shipped: 12rd January 2021
Entry Number: 2021007
Entry Date: 29th March 2021
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media - film and television, recorded sound, and publishing - that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.
