Abstinence cinema virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film

Introduction: the cinema of abstinenceMelodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012) -- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005) -- The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial...

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1. Verfasser: Kelly, Casey Ryan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: the cinema of abstinenceMelodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012) -- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005) -- The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives.
Introduction: the cinema of abstinence -- Melodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012) -- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005) -- The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index
Beschreibung:x, 196 pages
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ISBN:9780813575117
978-0-8135-7511-7
9780813575100
978-0-8135-7510-0