The B Word explores the ways bisexual fantasy opens a space for bi-curious engagement, creating a fluid range of identifications and pleasures. In films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain, The Wedding Crashers, Persona, Chasing Amy, and Mulholland Drive, Maria San Filippo finds th…
Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is often absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. The author aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary scre…
"Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as "provocauteurs" kno…
"Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as "provocauteurs" kno…
"Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as "provocauteurs" kno…
Throughout this edgy volume, San Filippo examines a myriad of controversial strategies--including ""real sexscenes, scandalous marketing campaigns, full-frontal nudity, troubling texts, and divisive figures--to reveal the critical role that sexual provocation plays as a promotio…
"Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as "provocauteurs" kno…
Throughout this edgy volume, San Filippo examines a myriad of controversial strategies--including ""real sexscenes, scandalous marketing campaigns, full-frontal nudity, troubling texts, and divisive figures--to reveal the critical role that sexual provocation plays as a promotio…