Virgin territory: representing sexual inexperience in film
"In Virgin Territory contributors consider virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, this collection proves that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple. The essays in Virgin Territory destabilize assumptions about virginity and connect moments of virginity in film to their larger social significance."--Jacket.
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- Full title :Virgin territory : representing sexual inexperience in film / edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald.
Summary
"In Virgin Territory contributors consider virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, this collection proves that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple. The essays in Virgin Territory destabilize assumptions about virginity and connect moments of virginity in film to their larger social significance."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wayne State University Press
- Place of Publication:Detroit
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 296 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780814336953, 0814336957
- oclc:ocn821725676
- LC Classification:PN1995.9.V55
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/6538
Table of Contents
Introduction / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Velvet's cherry : Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood / Gaylyn Studlar -- The innocent is a broad : American virgins in a global context / Ilana Nash -- Virgin springs : a survey of teen films' quest for sexcess / Timothy Shary -- Postwar virginity and the "Marjorie" phenomenon / Rebecca Sullivan -- One very chic hell : revisiting the issue of virginity in Bonjour Tristesse / Alisia G. Chase -- Performances of desire and inexperience : Doris Day's fluctuating filmic virginity / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Fresh meat? dissecting the horror movie virgin / Pete Falconer -- Don't touch me : violating boundaries in Roman Polanski's Repulsion / Nina Martin -- Orgasmic (teenage) virgins : masturbation and virginity in contemporary American cinema / Greg Tuck -- Love's labor's lost? early 1980s representations of girls' sexual decision making in Fast times at Ridgemont High and Little darlings / Lisa M. Dresner -- Was she or wasn't she? virginity and identity in the critical reception of Elizabeth (1998) / Shelley Cobb -- The window and the door / Andrea Sabbadini -- Irreconcilable feminisms and the construction of a cultural memory of vir…
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