Pearson Custom Publishing 2007. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Pearson Custom Publishing paperback
Référence libraire : G0536377332I4N00 ISBN : 0536377332 9780536377333
Paperback / softback. New. As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera the human body undergoes a metamorphosis becoming both landscape and building part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening <i>The Space of Sex</i> Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body looking and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. <i>The Space of Sex</i>âs second half focuses on how sex gender and sexuality are represented in several recent films including Paul Schraderâs <i>The Canyons</i> 2013 Oliver Stoneâs <i>Savages </i>2012 Steven Soderberghâs <i>Magic Mike</i> 2012 Lars Von Trierâs <i>Nymphomaniac </i>2013 and Joseph Gordon-Levittâs <i>Don Jon </i>2013. Each of these mainstream or independent movies and several more are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography if not the pornography industry specifically into their plot. According to Waldrep the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulseâthe desire to have sex on the screen to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shameâwith a mixed feeling about pornography itself with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words sex in our contemporary world still does not come without compromise. paperback
Référence libraire : B9781501377365 ISBN : 1501377361 9781501377365
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