| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
representing sexual inexperience in film |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
McDonaldTamar Jeffers, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Detroit |
| Published: |
Wayne State University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (vii, 296 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Contemporary approaches to film and television series |
| Subject: |
Sex in motion pictures - |
| Subject: |
Virginity in motion pictures - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336953/ |
| Notes: |
Includes filmography |
| ISBN: |
9780814336953electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780814333181pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Velvet's cherry : ElizabethTaylor and virginal English girlhood / Gaylyn Studlar -- The innocent is a broad : American virgins in a global context / Ilana Nash -- Virgin springs : a survey of teen films' quest for sexcess / Timothy Shary -- Postwar virginity and the "Marjorie" phenomenon / Rebecca Sullivan --One very chic hell : revisiting the issue of virginity in Bonjour Tristesse / Alisia G. Chase -- Performances of desire and inexperience : Doris Day's fluctuating filmic virginity / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Fresh meat? dissecting the horror movie virgin / Pete Falconer -- Don't touch me : violating boundaries in Roman Polanski's Repulsion / Nina Martin -- Orgasmic (teenage) virgins : masturbation and virginity in contemporary American cinema / Greg Tuck -- Love's labor's lost? early 1980s representations of girls' sexual decision making in Fast times at Ridgemont High and Little darlings / Lisa M. Dresner -- Was she or wasn't she? virginity and identity in the critical reception of Elizabeth (1998) / Shelley Cobb -- The window and the door / Andrea Sabbadini -- Irreconcilable feminisms and the construction of a cultural memory ofvirginity's loss: Á ma soeur! and Thirteen / Carol Siegel -- The new road to sexual ecstasy : virginity and genre in The 40-year-old virgin / Celestino Deleyto |