Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of both 'mutual understanding' and 'galvanizing extension' in ways of seeing this object of 'real-sex cinema'. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary co-operation and critique, and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel, as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy, desire, risk and transgression. This is a book which substantively, methodologically and theoretically is embracing and engaging in its consideration of the images, ethics, 'double standards' and embodiments of brutal cinema. Written in a style free of jargon, and crossing the boundaries of film studies, media and cultural studies, the ethnographic turn, risk sociology, feminist psychoanalytical and geopolitical studies, this is a book for students, academics as well as general and professional audiences.

About the Author
John Tulloch is Professor Emeritus in Communication at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in Communication, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Belinda Middleweek is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Reviews
Provides both academics and film buffs with an interesting look at the films that toe the line on what [is] acceptable in cinema. * Dakota Ratley, Communication Booknotes Quarterly *
Media studies desperately needs more rainbow scholarship like the impeccable work Tulloch and Middleweek have done here, especially on experiences that are so central to the human condition: intimacy, desire, and sex. * Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam, author of Media Life *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190244606
Author John Tulloch
Format Hardback
Page Count 376
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 662g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 164mm * 24mm