Sleeping with Strangers
How the Movies Shaped Desire
In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies-and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination-and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name-Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love…
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- ISBN: 978-1-101-94700-5
- EAN: 9781101947005
- Produktnummer: 27400946
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 19'537 KB
- Abbildungen: 21 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
Über den Autor
David Thomson is the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, Moments That Made the Movies, The Whole Equation, and the pioneering novel Suspects, which was peopled with characters from film. He lives in San Francisco.
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