Sex scene : media and the sexual revolution / Eric Schaefer, ed.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC1674128ISBN: 9780822376804 (e-book)Subject(s): Sex in mass media | Sex in motion pictures | Mass media -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sex scene : media and the sexual revolution.DDC classification: 302.230973 LOC classification: P96.S452 | U67 2014Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rate it x? : Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. Haberski Jr. -- Porn goes to college : American universities, their students, and pornography, 1968-1973 / Arthur Knight and Kevin M. Flanagan.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Library Journal Review
Schaefer (visual media studies, Emerson Coll.; "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959) edits 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. While the work is similar to titles such as Rodger Streitmatter's Sex Sells! The Media's Journey from Repression to Obsession, it creates a niche in its selection of topics. The book deals with common themes in film studies such as gender, economics, and censorship but also addresses the commodification of sex and the demand it created. Although the title suggests that the essays deal with the radical notions of sex in media, it commonly describes the nudity and sex as commonplace in various outlets. The collection also deals with legal and social opposition to the mainstream exposure to sex, but its forte is the role of publishing and the press in the "sexual revolution." Verdict 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.-Kimberley Bugg, Brooklyn (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.CHOICE Review
Schaefer (visual and media arts, Emerson College) has assembled a remarkable collection of essays about the ways in which media disrupted and recalibrated assumptions about sex and sexuality in the US during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The essays investigate key topics (e.g., obscenity, commercialization), texts (e.g., I Am Curious, Deep Throat, Playboy), organizations (e.g., Motion Picture Association of America, National Sex Forum), people (Jane Fonda, Douglas Fraser, film critics), and media (films, magazines, phonograph records, and so on) tied to the "sexual revolution." The essays also interrogate key dialectics of sex and sexuality, including framing desire as an insatiable condition of perpetual yearning; the right to privacy and the right to access information; public knowledge and consumption of sex and not being able to access sex in public or in private contexts; the tension between refined, artistic films and exhibitions and striving for sexual liberation; concerns about morality and perversion; and the "reality effects" of porn, or how sexual performers pretend to enact real emotions in order to convey fantasies of desire. An important collection for anyone interested in media history, sexual regulation, and political activism/social change. --Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois UniversityThere are no comments on this title.