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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Waldrep, Shelton
Titre(s) : The space of sex [Texte électronique] : the porn aesthetic in contemporary film and television / Shelton Waldrep
Publication : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on
June 07, 2021).
"As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera,
the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part
of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body
itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the
mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep
sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art;
the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary
methodology of the book as a whole. The Space of Sex's second half focuses on how
sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul
Schrader's The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone's Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh's
Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's
Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more,
are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography
industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements
of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as
both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as
something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself,
with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our
contemporary world, still does not come without compromise"
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de IX-293 p.
Sujet(s) : Corps humain -- Au cinéma
Corps humain -- À la télévision
Pornographie -- Influence
Cinéma -- Esthétique
Télévision -- Esthétique
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 561 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes de médecine, santé, corps humain
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1501333089. - ISBN 9781501333064. - ISBN 1501333062. - ISBN 9781501333088. -
ISBN 9781501333057 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46844887k
Notice n° :
FRBNF46844887
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
