Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

ISBN-13: 9780415237338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str.

Brian McNair

Opis

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society. Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections: * Part one traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with porno-chic
* Part two considers popular cultural forms of sexual representation in the media, moving from backlash elements in straight male culture and changing images of women, to the representation of gays in contemporary film and television
* Part three looks at the use of sexuality in contemporary art, examinging the artistic striptease of Jeff Koons, and others who have used their own naked bodies in their work.
Also considering how feminist and gay artists have employed sexuality in the critique and transformation of patriarchy, the high profile of sexuality as a key contributor to public health education in the era of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of the rise of striptease culture for the future of sexual poltics, Brian McNair has produced an excellent book in the study of gender, sexuality and contemporary culture."

Recenzje

'With his excellent analysis of Striptease Culture Brian McNair has explored a contemporary social and cultural trend of immense importance. A wide range of scholars owe him a debt of gratitude...an enviable well written and accesible book' - Keith Tester, University of Portsmouth

Spis treści

List of figures. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Sex Matters 2. From Wilde to Wild: the End of Patriarch, Or Is It All Just History Repeating Part I Cultural Sexualisation: from Pornosphere to Public Sphere 3. The Amazing Expanding Pornosphere 4. Porno-chic, or the Pornographication of the Mainstream 5. Striptease Culture: the Sexualisation of the Public Sphere Part II Sexual Representation 6. Women, Know Your Limits! 7. The Mainstreaming of Gayness 8. Men Behaving Sadly: the Crisis of Masculinity? Part III The Aesthetics of Sexual Transgression 9. Men, Sex and Transgression 10. Queer Culture 11. Bad Girls: Sexual Transgression as Feminist Strategy 12. Conclusions. Bibliography

O autorze

Brian McNair is Reader in Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling, and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. His books include Mediated Sex (1996), The Sociology of Journalism (1998) and Journalism and Democracy (Routledge, 2000).