Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat 's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway . A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Har…
Intercourse in Television and Film analyses the use of explicit sex in contemporary visual media, drawing on films and television series from several countries and in many genres to raise questions about the choices of actors and directors and the integration of themes of sexual…
1. Beyond repetitive endings : teen film, fake orgasm and performance in Easy A -- 2. Becoming pregnant : girlhood, responsibility and "irrationality" in Juno -- 3. Constructing virginity : religion, secularism and abstinence in Looking for Alibrandi and The rage in Placid Lake …
"Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated-or "messy"--Relationships in these popular cultural forms m…
Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated-or "messy"--Relationships in these popular cultural forms ma…
""Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexual…
""Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexual…
"Despite the frequently form-fitting costumes and prominent secondary sex characteristics, superhero sexuality has rarely been discussed seriously. Besides homoerotic accusations directed at Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman in the '50s and Larry Niven's seminal essay "Man of Stee…
"Despite the frequently form-fitting costumes and prominent secondary sex characteristics, superhero sexuality has rarely been discussed seriously. Besides homoerotic accusations directed at Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman in the '50s and Larry Niven's seminal essay "Man of Stee…
"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…