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Sleeping with strangers : how the movies shaped desire
- Title
- Sleeping with strangers : how the movies shaped desire / David Thomson.
- Author
- Thomson, David, 1941-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 348 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film explores how sexuality in the movies and the performances of iconic actors have reflected cultural experimentation and the fulfillment of latent desires.
- Subjects
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi Book."
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The iceman cometh -- A powder-puff? -- Is this allowed? -- Hideaway -- Codes and codebreakers -- The Goddamn monster -- Gable and Cukor -- Tracy and Hepburn -- Buddies and cowboys -- "The cat's in the bag, the bag's in the river" -- Dead attractive: Cary Grant -- Indecency, gross, or mass market? -- The male gaze -- Perverse -- Burning man -- Gigolo -- Doing it, saying it -- An open door.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-2329
- ISBN
- 9781101946992
- 1101946997
- LCCN
- 2018017604
- OCLC
- 1033551182
- Author
- Thomson, David, 1941- author.
- Title
- Sleeping with strangers : how the movies shaped desire / David Thomson.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-2329