Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film - Kelly, Casey Ryan, 1979- (New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.
Keywords: Virginity in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures