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Screening Sex
By Linda Williams
"With Screening Sex, Linda Williams establishes herself as not only the preeminent scholar of cinematic eroticism, but also the most significant voice in cinema studies of her generation."- Eric Schaefer, author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1958
"Linda Williams is a terrific storyteller about sex, and, as she tracks the growth of her own cinematically mediated sexual consciousness, we go to the movies with her, imagining as though for the first time new encounters with explicitness, new sexual knowledge, and new spectatorial sensations."-Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
"Screening Sex is a truly remarkable follow-up to Linda Williams's groundbreaking book Hard Core. It reaffirms her place as the leading feminist scholar of the history and theory of on-screen sex. Not that it was ever in doubt."- Jane Gaines, author of Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era
For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the renowned film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations. Whether examining the arch artistry of Last Tango in Paris, the on-screen orgasms of Jane Fonda, or the anal sex of two cowboys in Brokeback Mountain, Williams illuminates the forms of pleasure and vicarious knowledge derived from screening sex.
Combining stories of her own coming of age as a moviegoer with film history, cultural history, and readings of significant films, Williams presents a fascinating history of the on-screen kiss, a look at the shift from adolescent kisses to more grown-up displays of sex, and a comparison of the "tasteful" Hollywood sexual interlude with sexuality as represented in sexploitation, Blaxploitation, and avant-garde films. She considers Last Tango in Paris and Deep Throat, two 1972 films unapologetically all about sex; In the Realm of the Senses, the only work of 1970s international cinema that combined hard-core sex with erotic art; and the sexual provocations of the mainstream movies Blue Velvet and Brokeback Mountain. She describes art films since the 1990s, in which the sex is aggressive, loveless, or alienated. Finally, Williams reflects on the experience of screening sex on small screens at home rather than on large screens in public. By understanding screening sex as both revelation and concealment, Williams has written the definitive study of sex at the movies.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86wfe5cr9780252033742.html
University of Illinois Press
November 2008 6 x 9 inches 129 illustrations 432pp £14.99 PB: 978-0-8223-4285-4
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Global TV
New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69
By James Schwoch, Northwestern University
"A wholly original, well-researched, and superbly written account of the development of global television set within the intertwined contexts of American foreign policy, psychological warfare, and information diplomacy during the years 1946-69. Stimulating and enjoyable."--John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
"The sheer joy that Schwoch takes in hauling curiosities out of the archives is contagious. The result is a portrait that brings forth many treasures, some comic, some poignant, from the Cold War era, and also provides some serious food for thought in considering current U.S. policy about international media and goodwill building."--John Durham Peters, author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
James Schwoch presents a unique retelling of the Cold War period by examining the relationship of global television, diplomacy, and new electronic communications media. Beginning with the Allied occupation of Germany in 1946 and ending with the 1969 Apollo moon landing, this book explores major developments in global media, including the postwar absorption of the International Telecommunications Union into the United Nations and its impact on both television and international policy; the rise of psychological warfare and its relations to new electronic media of the 1950s; and the role of the Ford Foundation in shaping global communication research concepts.
Drawing on work in media studies, diplomatic history, and science and technology studies, Schwoch analyzes the way in which global media has been characterized, emphasizing a discursive shift away from a framework of east-west security and, by the 1960s, toward a framework of world citizenship and globalization. The global growth of television and other new electronic media occurred in conjunction with the ongoing tensions of the Cold War, as superpowers searched for ways to extend their influence beyond traditional borders of nation-states and into the extraterritorialities of planet Earth.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86wfe5cr9780252033742.html
University of Illinois Press
November 2008 6 x 9 inches 28 photographs 370pp £14.99 PB: 978-0-252-07569-8
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