Review of Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema by John Tulloch and Belinda Middleweek. Oxford University Press. 2017. Review by Connor Winterton, Birmingham City University, UK.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review – Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Review of Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood by Sherianne Kramer. Routledge. 2017. Review by Isaac Gustafsson Wood, University of Southampton, UK.
Book Review – Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television
Review of Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television by Kyra Clarke. Routledge. 2017. (HB/eBook). 248pp. Review by Madita Oeming, University of Paderborn, Germany.
Book Review – Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
Review of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s by Elena Gorfinkel. University of Minnesota Press. 2017. [HB/PB]. 320pp. Review by Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Southern California, USA.
Book Review – Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
Review of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington. Routledge. 2016. [HB/eBook]. 288pp.
Review by Sarah Arnold, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Book Review – Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
Review of Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema by David Church. Bloomsbury. 2016. (HB, PB, eBook). 296pp.
Review by Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University, US.
Book Review – Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema
Review of Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Review by Alice Haylett Bryan, King's College London, UK.
Book Review – Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity
Review of Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity by John Mercer. I. B. Tauris. 2017. Review by Brandon Arroyo, Concordia University, Canada.
Book Review – Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy
review by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK.
Book Review – Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure
Review of Lynn Comella’s Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure. Duke University Press. September 2017 (HB £79.00 and PB £20.99). 296 pages. 41 illustrations.
Review by Caroline West, Dublin City University.