Sex And the Cinema.

From the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema with a heady distillation of fleshly passions. Whether laced in the rapturous rhetorics of romance or seeking to pack a harder erotic punch, cinematic representations of sex and sexual desire have provided cinema with one of its major attractions. Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts - artistic, institutional, political and socio-cultural - that have shaped the way that sex appears in film. Formal conventions used to represent sex and desire in cinema, as well as themes such as adultery, incest, romance, sado-masochism and 'real' sex are explored.

Tanya Krzywinska is Reader in Film at Brunel University.

Defining sex in cinema : forms and frameworks
Forms and contexts	p. 6
Knowledge frameworks	p. 18
Formal conventions of cinematic sex	p. 27
Narrative formulas	p. 49
Institutional frameworks : censorship and regulation	p. 82
Themes of transgression
Rhetorics and forms of transgression	p. 108
Adultery : domestic transgressions	p. 118
The beast within : animal transformation and bestiality	p. 139
Bondage, domination and sado-masochism	p. 186
Real sex	p. 217
Coda : economies of desire	p. 228
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