With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives are pornographic. This book explores how, rather than being pornographic, explicit sex can be an essential element of cinematic storytelling today. Offering detailed analysis of how choices are made in the presentation of explicit sex in often very controversial films, such as Shame, Baise-Moi, Antichrist, Dogtooth and Lust, Caution, the expert contributors including Barbara Creed, Jacob Held and...
With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical conster...