To browse Academia. Selling sex on screen: from Weimar cinema to zombie porn is an anthology edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy, exploring the contested representations of sex in film and television.
This work highlights the connections between sex, gender, and socio-historical contexts, focusing particularly on the representation of prostitution as a reflection of male anxieties.
By addressing themes such as class, economics, and violence, the collection enriches contemporary feminist and gender studies and critiques misrepresentations of sexual narratives in visual culture. Sex Scene, edited by Eric Schaeffer, includes contributions from sixteen authors and specialists with various scholarly sexual backgrounds including the history of hardcore pornography, sexuality and gay matters, as well as media, film, culture, and gender studies.
The book is divided into five parts each has three chapters of almost equal length. Each essay is supported by nude, erotic or sexy scenes, stills, and posters thus there are more than five dozens black and white figures in the entire book.
The book discusses art films, sexploitation films, mainstream movies, erotic films, and gay pornography in fifteen lively essays. Schaeffer's anthology offers a comprehensive and complex history of the sexual revolution of the late s and early s. In Chapter one, Rate It X? Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code, the author examines the transitional period in American film history which consisted of the s to the end of the s.
