Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film / Casey Ryan Kelly.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016Description: x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813575117
  • 0813575117
  • 9780813575100
  • 0813575109
  • 0813575133
  • 9780813575131
  • 0813575125
  • 9780813575124
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9 .V55 K45 2016
Contents:
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: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.

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: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives.

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