{"product_id":"making-sex-public-and-other-cinematic-fantasies-hardback-9781478001331","title":"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (Hardback) 9781478001331","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDamon R. Young (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478001331\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 128 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.726 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Guy Davidson (Continuum) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Ricky Varghese (Public) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Nick Davis (GLQ) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public\u003c\/i\u003e is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Sam Hunter (Film \u0026amp; History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Young’s \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Haley Hvdson (Synoptique) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Nick Rees-Roberts (Journal of the History of Sexuality)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBeginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public\u003c\/i\u003e Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late '50s through the present, from \u003ci\u003eAnd God Created Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBarbarella \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eCruising \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShortbus\u003c\/i\u003e, Young argues that cinema participated in the transformation of the sexual subject while showing how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Making Sex Public  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Women\u003cbr\u003e 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, \u003ci\u003eBarbarella\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Liberal Sexual Subject  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex  54\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Criminals\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in \u003ci\u003ePlein soleil\u003c\/i\u003e  95\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eCruising\u003c\/i\u003e and the Fraternal Social Contract  122\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Citizens\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eWord Is Out\u003c\/i\u003e, or Queer Privacy  159\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eShortbus\u003c\/i\u003e  187\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality  215\u003cbr\u003e Notes  239\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  279\u003cbr\u003e Index  295\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026077976,"sku":"9781478001331","price":70.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-sex-public-and-other-cinematic-fantasies-hardback-9781478001331","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}