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Sex and Film, 2015
The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema
Author: Forshaw B.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Sex and Film:
Keywords
sex; cinema; film history; erotica; Bergman; taboo; censorship; Hays code; pornography; BBFC; Europe; film; world cinema
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Barry Forshaw is one of the UK's leading high-profile experts on film and fiction, writing on the subjects for various newspapers and books and recording BBC TV and radio programmes, along with broadcasts throughout the world
The book anatomises in intelligent but accessible fashion the massive commercial (and artistic) appeal of the erotic, both film and original sources (with such movies as ”Nymphomaniac”, "Blue is the Warmest Colour”, and EL James' "50 Shades of Grey”). This is the perfect reader's guide to the field today
Forshaw discuses ingenious attempts by filmmakers in the 1940s to circumvent censorship, through the demolition of taboos by arthouse movies of the 1950s and 1960s (notably Ingmar Bergman's groundbreaking The Virgin Spring and The Silence) and the battles of rebel directors such as Otto Preminger, who controversially tried to tackle the sexual arena with an adult honesty