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Westport:: Praeger,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2007. Hardcover. 9780275992262 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . 2007. Praeger, ISBN 0275992268 9780275992262 [US]

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of Sex in American Film. ISBN 0275992268 9780275992262 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275992268, ISBN13: 9780275992262, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad ways. A more complete understanding of the ways in which sex has been represented onscreen requires an approach that pays equal attention to cinematic techniques and to the diversity of sexual values and behaviors in American society. It is necessary to frame this discussion within the multiple contradictions of an industry that has both repressed and represented sex with equal fervor over the course of its history; of audiences that have both taken offense at and flocked to films with sexual themes; and a body politic that has regulated the sexual in popular culture even as its discourse has been saturated with sexual images and topics. The History of Sex in American Cinema moves seamlessly between general film and social history to clarify how exactly sex has been expressed cinematically, and how we have responded to those expressions as a culture.In March of 1965 the Supreme Court put into motion legal changes that marked the end of local film censorship as it had existed since the early years of the twentieth century. In Hollywood that same year, The Pawnbroker was released with a Production Code Seal ...