Real Sex Films

The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema

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by John Tulloch and Belinda Middleweek

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Keywords: sex, pornographic films
Publishing date: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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Paperback • 376 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-024461-3

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Book Presentation:
• Offers a new, interdisciplinary approach to this controversial film movement
• Containes detailed analyses of key films
• Features 40 screen images

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both 'mutual understanding' and 'galvanizing extension' in ways of seeing this object of 'real-sex cinema'. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary co-operation and critique, and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel, as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy, desire, risk and transgression. This is a book which substantively, methodologically and theoretically is embracing and engaging in its consideration of the images, ethics, 'double standards' and embodiments of brutal cinema. Written in a style free of jargon, and crossing the boundaries of film studies, media and cultural studies, the ethnographic turn, risk sociology, feminist psychoanalytical and geopolitical studies, this is a book for students, academics as well as general and professional audiences.

About the authors:
John Tulloch, Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University, and Belinda Middleweek, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney John Tulloch is Professor Emeritus in Communication at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in Communication, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Belinda Middleweek is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Press Reviews:
"Provides both academics and film buffs with an interesting look at the films that toe the line on what [is] acceptable in cinema." - Dakota Ratley, Communication Booknotes Quarterly

"Media studies desperately needs more rainbow scholarship like the impeccable work Tulloch and Middleweek have done here, especially on experiences that are so central to the human condition: intimacy, desire, and sex." - Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam, author of Media Life

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