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BOOK REVIEW – LESBIAN CINEMA AFTER QUEER THEORY
REVIEW OF LESBIAN CINEMA AFTER QUEER THEORY BY CLARA BRADBURY-RANCE. EDIBURGH: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019. 194 PAGES REVIEW BY POLINA ZELMANOVA, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK In her first monograph, Clara Bradbury-Rance addresses the contentious issue of lesbian legibility in cinema of the 21st century. Set within the contemporary discussion on visibility politics, the book both celebrates … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW – LESBIAN CINEMA AFTER QUEER THEORY
BOOK REVIEW – Pornography: Structures, Agency, and Performance
Review of Pornography: Structures, Agency, and Performance by Rebecca Sullivan & Alan McKee, Polity Press 2015. (PB/HB). 219pp. REVIEW BY MARTIN FRADLEY, University of Brighton Has contemporary pornography lost its transgressive status, or does it remain the locus of conservative moral panic? A handful of media events as I was reading this book would suggest … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW – Pornography: Structures, Agency, and Performance
BOOK REVIEW – SEDUCTION: MEN, MASCULINITY AND MEDIATED INTIMACY
Review of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O'Neill. Review by Ashley Morgan, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.
Book Review – The War on Sex
Review of The War on Sex by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, eds. Duke University Press. 2017. Review by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK.
Book Review – Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
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.
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 – 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.
Screening Sex 