Sleeping With Strangers
Author: Thomson, David
ISBN: 9781101971024
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Jan 2020
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
From the celebrated film critic and author of Plt;IPgt;The Biographical Dictionary of Film,Plt;/IPgt; an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies, and of how actors and actresses on screen feed our desire.
In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of Plt;iPgt;The Biographical Dictionary of FilmPlt;/iPgt;, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the moviesP#8212;and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imaginationP#8212;and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Plt;iPgt;Bonnie and ClydePlt;/iPgt; to Plt;iPgt;Call Me by Your NamePlt;/iPgt;P#8212;Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic sP#233;ance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.
ISBN: 9781101971024
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Jan 2020
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
From the celebrated film critic and author of Plt;IPgt;The Biographical Dictionary of Film,Plt;/IPgt; an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies, and of how actors and actresses on screen feed our desire.
In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of Plt;iPgt;The Biographical Dictionary of FilmPlt;/iPgt;, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the moviesP#8212;and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imaginationP#8212;and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Plt;iPgt;Bonnie and ClydePlt;/iPgt; to Plt;iPgt;Call Me by Your NamePlt;/iPgt;P#8212;Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic sP#233;ance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.
