| Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire Contributor(s): Thomson, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101971029 ISBN-13: 9781101971024 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Reference |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2020288213 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies--and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination--and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name--Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic s ance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires. |
