Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema

Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique

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Edited by Lindsay Coleman

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sex

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Collection

International Library of the Moving Image

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 272 pages
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78076-640-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
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.

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