Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mappin... Read more

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with conceptsof production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both "mutual understanding" and "galvanizing extension" in ways of seeing this object of "real-sex cinema". Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary co-operationand critique, and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel, as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy, desire, risk and transgression. This is a book which substantively, methodologicallyand theoretically is embracing and engaging in its consideration of the images, ethics, "double standards" and embodiments of brutal cinema. Written in a style free of jargon, and crossing the boundaries of film studies, media and cultural studies, the ethnographic turn, risk sociology, feministpsychoanalytical and geopolitical studies, this is a book for students, academics as well as general and professional audiences. Less