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Informationen zum Autor Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Porn Studies, also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.” Klappentext Looks at the cinematic conventions for portraying sex acts from early representations of the kiss to more explicit depictions of sex in contemporary art films. Zusammenfassung For many years! kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and! just as important! how we have watched and experienced those representations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Of Kissing and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896–1963) 25 2. Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961–1971) 68 3. Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971–1972) 112 4. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) 155 5. Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 181 6. Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986–2005) 216 7. Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990s 258 Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! 299 Notes 327 Bibliography 379 Index 397
