Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Abstinence cinema [electronic resource] :virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film / Casey Ryan Kelly.

By: Kelly, Casey Ryan, 1979-.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813575131; 0813575133.Subject(s): Sex in motion pictures | Virginity in motion picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 791.43/6538 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.