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Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film /

Abstinence Cinema tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. Locating these regressive sexual politics in everything from Twilig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelly, Casey Ryan, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the cinema of abstinence
  • Melodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012)
  • Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005)
  • The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012)
  • Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008)
  • Sexsploitation in abstinence satires
  • Conclusion: counternarratives.