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The Space of Sex - The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television (Hardcover)
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The Space of Sex - The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television (Hardcover)
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As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic
gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis,
becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic
design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body
itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The
body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery.
Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important
tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the
emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial
and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. The Space
of Sex’s second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality
are represented in several recent films, including Paul
Schrader’s The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone’s Savages (2012),
Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier’s
Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon (2013).
Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more,
are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb
pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into
their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies
porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century
as both a utopian impulse—the desire to have sex on the screen,
to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in
shame—with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an
industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words,
sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without
compromise.
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