Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson

Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson

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 seance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

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ISBN 13	9781101971024
ISBN 10	1101971029
Title	Sleeping with Strangers
Author	David Thomson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-01-14
Number of pages	368
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