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Topic: RSS FeedScreening Sex.(Book review)
Cineaste, June, 2009 by Bronski, Michael
Screening Sex by Linda Williams. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 412 pp., illus. Hardcover $89.95 and Paperback $24.95.
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The conflation--conflagration?--of sex and cinema seems so natural as to be inevitable. The late British novelist and critic Brigid Brophy has noted in Prancing Novelist, a biography of Ronald Firbank, that all fiction is essentially masturbatory fantasy, and certainly the expression of fictional material on celluloid makes that truth even more visceral. Let's face it, cinema has the unique ability, in a wide variety of ways, to manifest individual and collective sexual fantasies, to literally project those fantasies onto the big screen, or these days, onto video.
Linda Williams, professor...
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