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

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 internati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Best, Victoria, 1969-
Other Authors: Crowley, Martin
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester Univ Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Pornography > France.
Sex in literature.
Sex in motion pictures.
Pornographie > France.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Sexualité au cinéma.
Pornography.
France.
Literatur.
Erotik > Motiv.
Frankreich.
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>.
Französisch.
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Physical Description:viii, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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.