{"product_id":"the-space-of-sex-the-porn-aesthetic-in-contemporary-film-and-television-paperback","title":"The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShelton Waldrep\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Space of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e's second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader's \u003ci\u003eThe Canyons\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), Oliver Stone's \u003ci\u003eSavages\u003c\/i\u003e(2012), Steven Soderbergh's \u003ci\u003eMagic Mike\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), Lars Von Trier's \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e(2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's \u003ci\u003eDon Jon\u003c\/i\u003e(2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without compromise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShelton Waldrep \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), the co-author of \u003ci\u003eInside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47458901459197,"sku":"9781501377365","price":80.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/NkJ2S3RjRld2ait1VllZNW1WMlpUdz09.webp?v=1777252703","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-space-of-sex-the-porn-aesthetic-in-contemporary-film-and-television-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}