The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema

This bold and original book examines in detail a relatively new genre of film—the erotic thriller. Linda Ruth Williams traces the genre’s exploitation of pornography and noir, discusses mainstream stars (including Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone) as well as genre-branded direct-to-video stars, charts the work of key producers and directors, and considers home videos as a distinct form of viewing pleasure. She maps the history of the genre, analyzing hundreds of movies from blockbusters such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and In the Cut to straight-to-video film titles such as Carnal Crimes, Sins of Desire, and Night Eyes. 
Williams’s witty and illuminating readings tell the story of this sensational genre and contribute to the analysis of mainstream screen sex—and its censorship—at the beginning of the 21st century. She shows that as the erotic thriller plays out the sexual fantasies of contemporary America, it also provides a vehicle for marketing those fantasies globally.

Humor & Entertainment

Williams, Linda Ruth

Movies

Indiana Univ. Pr

This bold and original book examines in detail a relatively new genre of film—the erotic thriller. Linda Ruth Williams traces the genre’s exploitation of pornography and noir, discusses mainstream stars (including Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone) as well as genre-branded direct-to-video stars, charts the work of key producers and directors, and considers home videos as a distinct form of viewing pleasure. She maps the history of the genre, analyzing hundreds of movies from blockbusters such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and In the Cut to straight-to-video film titles such as Carnal Crimes, Sins of Desire, and Night Eyes. Williams’s witty and illuminating readings tell the story of this sensational genre and contribute to the analysis of mainstream screen sex—and its censorship—at the beginning of the 21st century. She shows that as the erotic thriller plays out the sexual fantasies of contemporary America, it also provides a vehicle for marketing those fantasies globally.

Indiana University Press

Contemporary American Cinema

The first complete study of mainstream and nontraditional film since 1960 Indispensable to film students and general readers interested in this art form, Contemporary American Cinema culls together the writings of the world's leading film scholars to provide the first comprehensive introduction to postclassical American film. Heavily illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white stills, it takes a close look at all aspects of the genre, including influential movies, directors, producers, and actors. This unique and accessible resource includes two Tables of Contents, allowing readers to research chronologically or thematically. In addition, it includes a glossary of important terms, suggestions for further reading, sample essay questions, and a filmography. Subjects include: <ul>
<li>Decline of the early studio system </li>
<li>Rise of American new-wave cinema </li>
<li>Parallel histories of independent and underground cinema </li>
<li>Black cinema--from the "blaxploitation" era of the 1970s to the 1990s </li>
<li>Full history of the American blockbuster </li>
<li>Uses and effects of new film making technologies </li>
<li>America's ever-changing audiences </li>
<li>Key genres and industry statistics </li>
</ul>

HAMMOND, MICHAEL

Open University Press

The first complete study of mainstream and nontraditional film since 1960 Indispensable to film students and general readers interested in this art form, Contemporary American Cinema culls together the writings of the world's leading film scholars to provide the first comprehensive introduction to postclassical American film. Heavily illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white stills, it takes a close look at all aspects of the genre, including influential movies, directors, producers, and actors. This unique and accessible resource includes two Tables of Contents, allowing readers to research chronologically or thematically. In addition, it includes a glossary of important terms, suggestions for further reading, sample essay questions, and a filmography. Subjects include: <ul>
<li>Decline of the early studio system </li>
<li>Rise of American new-wave cinema </li>
<li>Parallel histories of independent and underground cinema </li>
<li>Black cinema--from the "blaxploitation" era of the 1970s to the 1990s </li>
<li>Full history of the American blockbuster </li>
<li>Uses and effects of new film making technologies </li>
<li>America's ever-changing audiences </li>
<li>Key genres and industry statistics </li>
</ul>

Critical Desire traces the history of the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. It shows clearly and with abundant examples from literature and film the shifts and changes in psychoanalytic thought on culture and aesthetics. Readings of specific texts are presented together with lucid accounts of the development of Freudian psychoanalysis, Kleinian and Lacanian analysis, the work of Winnicott, Laplanche, and more recent post-structuralist psychoanalytic readers.

Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject (Interrogating Texts)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Hodder Education Publishers

Tracing the history of psychoanalysis' love affair with literature, and literary critical encounters with psychoanalysis, this book shows, with examples from literature and film, the shifts and changes in psychoanalytic thought on culture and aesthetics. It presents readings of specific texts in tandem with accounts of the development of Freudian psychoanalysis, Kleinian and Lacanian analysis, the work of Winnicot, Laplanche and more recent post-structuralist psychoanalytic readers. The texts chosen for attention include Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cousin Phillis", D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letters", Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus", Margaret Oliphant's "Autobiography", Freud's "Wolf Man" case, Daphne du Maurier's short story "Don't Look Now" (and Nicholas Roeg's film adaptation of it), poems by Christina Rossetti, Sheridan le Fanu's "Carmilla", and - as an example of a text apparently resistant to analysis - Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure".

Edinburgh University Press

Steven Spielberg's Children

Rutgers University Press

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The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema

The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema

Contemporary American Cinema

Contemporary American Cinema

Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject (Interrogating Texts)

Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject (Interrogating Texts)

The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema

Steven Spielberg's Children