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New Pornographies : Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film by Martin Crowley and Victoria Best (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN-100719073987
ISBN-139780719073984
eBay Product ID (ePID)60682527
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNew Pornographies : Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film
Publication Year2007
SubjectHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science
AuthorMartin Crowley, Victoria Best
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2008-275597
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.77
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. The battle of the sexes 2. Catherine Breillat: Touch/Cut 3. Inside, Outside: Guillaume Dustan, Érik Rémès 4. From revolution to abjection 5. Critical diistance : Catherine Millet, Virginie Despentes 6. Michel Houellebecq: Misery, pornography, utopia 7. The uses and abuses of children
SynopsisThe turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns. In this, the first study of this significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children. It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies., Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France's most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend., The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and directors - such as Michel Houellebecq, Catherine Breillat, Virginie Despentes, or Catherine Millet - whose work has often been dismissed as trashy or exploitative, but whose use of pornographic material may in fact be indicative of important contemporary concerns.In this, the first study of this significant trend, the authors explore how the reference to pornography encodes diverse political, cultural, and existential questions, including relations between the sexes, the collapse of avant-garde politics, gay sexualities in the time of AIDS, the anti-feminist backlash, the relation to the body and illness, the place of fantasy, and the sexualisation of children.It will be of interest to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of French culture, gender, film and media studies. -- .
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.S45
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