The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in Screen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence....

The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in DEGREESScreen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice.
The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

At a time when -sexy- can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, -in your face.- While critics accuse the academy of an obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that appears to refer to sex really does.

In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art, and critical theory, Mandy Merck considers these phenomena as well as the role of the dog in anti-porn...

At a time when -sexy- can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, -in your face.- While critics accuse the academy of an obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that appears to refer to sex really does.

In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art, and critical theory, Mandy Merck considers these phenomena as well as the role of the dog in anti-porn...

Has Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?

Has Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the greatest public mourning witnessed in the 20th century. For those perplexed by the events surrounding Diana's death, this book seeks to provide some answers. Underpinned by the idea that all aspects of the affair are open to investigation, that nothing - especially royalty - is sacred, it brings together a group of writers whose primary interest is to analyze her death rather than lament it.

At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important than ever.

This collection of new critical essays tackles this old problem in a new way, by examining some of the hundreds of US films that announce themselves as titularly 'American'. From early travelogues to contemporary comedies, national nomination has been an abiding characteristic of American motion pictures, heading the work of Porter, Guy-Blache, DeMille, Capra, Sternberg,...

In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.