Overview
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. Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams
Full Product Details
Author: Eric Schaefer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.839kg
ISBN: 9780822356424
ISBN 10: 0822356422
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 21 March 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Focusing on a wide range of topics and media, Eric Schaefer's anthology Sex Scene offers a complex and comprehensive history of the sexual revolution. The collection is a massive contribution to the study of sexual representation in the 1960s and 1970s."" - Jon Lewis, author of Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry ""[A] collection of 14 essays by various academics and experts in the fields of journalism, gender and sexuality issues, film history, and GLBTQ studies that investigate the promotion of sex in media [...] Recommended as a core title for collections dealing with sex and media, historical studies of the U.S. film industry, porn studies, media and/or sexual studies. Individuals interested in studying mass media, film, popular culture, and television would also find the book of value."" - Library Journal ""The essays in Sex Scene are vivid and provocative. ...Sex Scene offers a new angle for examining the 'longest revolution' and demonstrates the profound ability of the media to influence how we think, and what we think about... [A]n insightful education on the intersection between the media and the sexual revolution."" - PopMatters
Focusing on a wide range of topics and media, Eric Schaefer's anthology Sex Scene offers a complex and comprehensive history of the sexual revolution. The collection is a massive contribution to the study of sexual representation in the 1960s and 1970s. - Jon Lewis, author of Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry
Author Information
Eric Schaefer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He is the author of ""Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!"" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959, also published by Duke University Press.
