Intercourse in Television and Film: The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts

by TimPalmer (Contributor), Lindsay Coleman (Editor), Carol Siegel (Editor), Amber Strother (Contributor), Connor Winterton (Contributor), EvangelosTziallas (Contributor), KyleSittig (Contributor), SaraJanssen (Contributor), Carol Siegel (Editor), Amber Strother (Contributor), Connor Winterton (Contributor), Evangelos Tziallas (Contributor), Kyle Sittig (Contributor), Lindsay Coleman (Editor), Sara Janssen (Contributor), Tim Palmer (Contributor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $100.57

  As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit sex scenes since the 1990s, some of such scenes featuring the performance of actual sex acts. The incidence of sex in narratively powerful, resonant visual media can no longer be dismissed as a trend. What was once an aesthetic weapon in the arsenal of provocateurs is now frequently integrated seamlessly into the mise-en-scene and exposition of widely viewed and culturally significant films and television series. Intercourse in Television and Film: The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts analyzes the aesthetic and narrative contexts for the visual media presentation of the sexual act, both those which are non-simulated and those which are explicit to that point that their simulation is brought into question by the viewer. In this book, questions involving the performance choices of actors, the framing and editing of the sex act, and the director's attempts at integrating sexuality into the overall narrative structure as well as their effects are explored.