{"product_id":"making-sex-public-and-other-cinematic-fantasies-paperback","title":"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDamon R. Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women's bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In \u003ci\u003eMaking Sex Public\u003c\/i\u003e Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women's and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late '50s through the present, from \u003ci\u003eAnd God Created Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBarbarella \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eCruising \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShortbus\u003c\/i\u003e, Young argues that cinema participated in the transformation of the sexual subject while showing how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDamon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film \u0026amp; Media at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117956239495,"sku":"9781478001676","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6a1ddf96ebd801e903684ec4266be081.webp?v=1732529164","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/making-sex-public-and-other-cinematic-fantasies-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}