Overview

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.

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Author:   Lindsay Coleman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781780766409

ISBN 10:   1780766408
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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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