Provocauteurs and Provocations

Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (livre en anglais)

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de Maria San Filippo

Type

Essais

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

sexe

Année d'édition

2021

Editeur

Indiana University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 442 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-0-253-05212-4

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Is the sex on our screens simply sensationalism or is it a political strategy to help us reimagine ways of thinking about sexuality?
Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to court controversy, even scandal, in a bid to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. While such an approach may at times be no more than a profitable tactic, the most probing and powerful instances of sexual provocation serve to illuminate, question, and transform our understanding of sex and sexuality. In Provocauteurs and Provocations, award-winning author Maria San Filippo looks at the provocative in films, television series, web series and videos, entertainment industry publicity materials, and social media discourses and explores its potential to create alternative, even radical ways of screening sex. New production technologies enable and amplify the distribution of "provocauteurs," who challenge sexual conventions and representational norms.
Throughout this edgy volume, San Filippo examines a myriad of controversial strategies —including "real sex" scenes, scandalous marketing campaigns, full-frontal nudity, troubling texts, and divisive figures—to reveal the critical role that sexual provocation plays as a promotional strategy and authorial signature within the contemporary media landscape.

À propos de l'auteur :
Maria San Filippo is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning book The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, and editor of the forthcoming collection After 'Happily Ever After': Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age.

Revue de Presse :
This is one of the best and the most engrossing book I've read in my field in quite some time.
-Carol Siegel, Sex Radical Cinema, Goth's Dark Empire, and New Millennial Sexstyles

One of the book's most notable contributions to the field is its emphasis on the portrayal of sexuality in films by women artists, many of whom have been discussed in this arena but not in this kind of depth and with this level of insight.
-Michele Schreiber, Indie Reframed and American Postfeminist Cinema

Provocauteurs and Provocations delivers incredibly nuanced and deeply contextualized readings of a wide range of sexually provocative media texts. Reflecting the best work being done at the intersection of film/media studies and feminist/LGBTQ scholarship, it will be invaluable for helping us think through the ethical implications of screen media's current engagement with the pleasures and politics of sex.
Ron Becker, Gay TV and Straight America

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