Research Catalog

Title

The new pornographies : explicit sex in recent French fiction and film / Victoria Best and Martin Crowley.

Author

Best, Victoria, 1969-

Publication

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester Univ Press, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Crowley, Martin.

Description

viii, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

The turn of the 21st century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have achieved considerable international success.

Subject

• Pornography > France
• Sex in literature
• Sex in motion pictures
• Pornography
• Literatur
• Erotik Motiv
• Sexualitet > film > historia > Frankrike > sekelskiftet > 1900-talet > 2000-talet
• Pornografi > utopier > barnmisshandel > erotik
• Sexualitet i filmen > historia > Frankrike > 1990-talet > sekelskiftet 2000
• Sexualitet i litteraturen > historia > Frankrike > 1990-talet > sekelskiftet 2000
• Pornografi, analys
• Sexualitet på film
• Frankrike
• Film
• Pornographie <Motiv>
• France
• Frankreich
• Französisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The battle of the sexes -- Catherine Breillat : touch/cut -- Inside, outside : Guillaume Dustan and Erik Rémès -- From revolution to abjection -- Critical distance : Catherine Millet, Virginie Despentes -- Michel Houellebecq : misery, pornography, utopia -- The uses and abuses of children : thinking infantile eroticism.

ISBN

• 9780719073984
• 0719073987
• 0719073995
• 9780719073991

LCCN

2008275597

OCLC

• ocn171110477
• 171110477
• SCSB-14693144

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library