Linda Williams

0nce upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything! But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . CLOMP, CLOMP, SHAKE, SHAKE, CLAP, CLAP. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life!

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the renowned film scholar Linda Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations. Whether examining the arch artistry of Last Tango in Paris, the on-screen orgasms of Jane Fonda, or the anal sex of two cowboys in Brokeback Mountain, Williams illuminates the forms of pleasure and vicarious knowledge derived from screening sex. Combining stories of her own coming of age as a moviegoer with film history, cultural history, and readings of significant films, Williams presents a fascinating history of the on-screen kiss, a look at the shift from adolescent kisses to more grown-up displays of sex, and a comparison of the “tasteful” Hollywood sexual interlude with sexuality as represented in sexploitation, Blaxploitation, and avant-garde films. She considers Last Tango in Paris and Deep Throat, two 1972 films unapologetically all about sex; In the Realm of the Senses, the only work of 1970s international cinema that combined hard-core sex with erotic art; and the sexual provocations of the mainstream movies Blue Velvet and Brokeback Mountain. She describes art films since the 1990s, in which the sex is aggressive, loveless, or alienated. Finally, Williams reflects on the experience of screening sex on small screens at home rather than on large screens in public. By understanding screening sex as both revelation and concealment, Williams has written the definitive study of sex at the movies. Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Porn Studies, also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.” A John Hope Franklin Center Book November 424 pages 129 illustrations 6x9 trim size ISBN 0-8223-0-8223-4285-5 paper, $24.95 ISBN 0-8223-0-8223-4263-4 library cloth edition, $89.95 ISBN 978-0-8223-4285-4 paper, $24.95 ISBN 978-0-8223-4263-2 library cloth edition, $89.95

Screening Sex

Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded Edition

Hard Core

"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave

A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film

Figures of Desire

David Finkelhor

Nanci Burns

The problem of sexual abuse in day care has increasingly come to the attention of both the public and child abuse researchers during the last few years. Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care is the result of a two year nationwide investigation of sexual abuse in day care, conducted in an attempt.

Sexual Abuse in Day Care

Nursery Crimes

Popular Folk Song

Here We Go 'round the Mulberry Bush

Looks at the history of pornographic films, discusses what they reveal about attitudes towards sexuality, and considers the censorship issue

Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible"

Patricia Mellencamp

Mary A. Doane

Essays in Feminist Film Criticism

Re-Vision

Michael Hammond

“One of the rare collections I would recommend for use in undergraduate teaching – the chapters are lucid without being oversimplified and the contributors are adept at analyzing the key industrial, technological and ideological features of contemporary U.S. cinema.” Diane Negra, University of East Anglia, UK. “Contemporary American Cinema offers a fresh and sometimes revisionist look at developments in the American film industry from the 1960s to the present … Readers will find it lively and provocative.” Chuck Maland, University of Tennessee, USA. “Contemporary American Cinema is the book on the subject that undergraduate classes have been waiting for … Comprehensive, detailed, and intelligently organized [and] written in accessible and compelling prose … Contemporary American Cinema will be embraced by instructors and students alike.” Charlie Keil, Director, Cinema Studies Program, University of Toronto, Canada. “Contemporary American Cinema usefully gathers together a range of materials that provide a valuable resource for students and scholars. It is also a pleasure to read.” Hilary Radner, University of Otago, New Zealand. “Contemporary American Cinema deepens our knowledge of American cinema since the 1960s. … This is an important collection that will be widely used in university classrooms.” Lee Grieveson, University College London, UK. “Contemporary American Cinema is a clear-sighted and tremendously readable anthology, mapping the terrain of post-sixties US cinema with breadth and critical verve.” Paul Grainge, University of Nottingham, UK. “This collection of freshly written essays by leading specialists in the field will most likely be one of the most important works of reference for students and film scholars for years to come.” Liv Hausken, University of Oslo, Norway. Contemporary American Cinema is the first comprehensive introduction to American cinema since 1960. The book is unique in its treatment of both Hollywood, alternative and non-mainstream cinema. Critical essays from leading film scholars are supplemented by boxed profiles of key directors, producers and actors; key films and key genres; and statistics from the cinema industry. Illustrated in colour and black and white with film stills, posters and production images, the book has two tables of contents allowing students to use the book chronologically, decade-by-decade, or thematically by subject. Designed especially for courses in cinema studies and film studies, cultural studies and American studies, Contemporary American Cinema features a glossary of key terms, fully referenced resources and suggestions for further reading, questions for class discussion, and a comprehensive filmography. Individual chapters include: The decline of the studio system The rise of American new wave cinema The history of the blockbuster The parallel histories of independent and underground film Black cinema from blaxploitation to the 1990s Changing audiences The effects of new technology Comprehensive overview of US documentary from 1960 to the present Contributors include: Stephen Prince, Steve Neale, Susan Jeffords,Yvonne Tasker, Barbara Klinger, Jim Hillier, Peter Kramer, Mark Shiel,Sheldon Hall, Eithne Quinn, Michele Aaron, Jonathan Munby.

Contemporary American Cinema

Many television critics, legions of fans, even the president of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. The Wire is popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David Simon have claimed. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once, it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore's people and institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local government and local journalism. The Wire transforms close observation into an unparalleled melodrama by juxtaposing the good and evil of individuals with the good and evil of institutions.

On The Wire

Suzanne Davies

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). Gallery

"Heat : Art and Climate Change" brings together local and international artists and shows their response to this serious issue. It will feature photography, sound installation, multimedia, and painting."--Provided by publisher.

Art and Climate Change

Heat

Lumen Learning

2nd Edition

Introduction to Business

Twenty years of accumulated knowledge and research into violence towards partners are synthesized in this landmark book. Topics examined include: marital rape; effects of partner violence on children; partner violence among same sex couples; and partner violence in ethnic minority families. A final chapter examines issues of prevention and treatment, and provides empirically based recommendations for future research and practice.

A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research

Partner Violence

A professor of film studies examines the mythology of race to find the origins of those images, ideas, and stories that most provoke black and white Americans to hate and mistrust each other.

Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson

Playing the Race Card

In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. Porn Studies resists the tendency to situate pornography as the outer limit of what can be studied and discussed. With revenues totaling between ten and fourteen billion dollars annually—more than the combined revenues of professional football, basketball, and baseball—visual, hard-core pornography is a central feature of American popular culture. It is time, Williams contends, for scholars to recognize this and give pornography a serious and extended analysis. The essays in this volume move beyond feminist debates and distinctions between a “good” erotica and a “bad” hard core. Contributors examine varieties of pornography from the tradition of the soft-core pin-up through the contemporary hard-core tradition of straight, gay, and lesbian videos and dvds to the burgeoning phenomenon of pornography on the Internet. They explore, as examples of the genre, individual works as divergent as The Starr Report, the pirated Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson honeymoon video, and explicit Japanese “ladies' comics” consumed by women. They also probe difficult issues such as the sexualization of race and class and the relationship of pornography to the avant-garde. To take pornography seriously as an object of analysis also means teaching it. Porn Studies thus includes a useful annotated bibliography of readings and archival sources important to the study of pornography as a cultural form. Contributors. Heather Butler, Rich Cante, Jake Gerli, Minette Hillyer, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Despina Kakoudaki, Franklin Melendez, Ara Osterweil, Zabet Patterson, Constance Penley, Angelo Restivo, Eric Schaefer, Michael Sicinski, Deborah Shamoon, Maria St. John, Tom Waugh, Linda Williams

Porn Studies

Mary Smith

Barbara Brown

40 XXX Erotic eBook Collection Keep yourself entertained with this collection of 40 erotic ebooks. This box set includes the following: 1. A Royal Dance 2. The Bride 3. Intimacy Flaws 4. Megan And The Producer 5. Multiple Dates 6. Nippy Sisters 7. Private Lessons 8. Single Hunters 9. Women Of Ill Repute 10. The Bet 11. Among Us 12. KISSES IN PIECES 13. Love Trap 14. Misfit Evolution 15. My Wedding Day 16. Razed Friendship 17. The Last Man on Earth 18. Unfortunate 19. Unspoken Attraction 20. Yoga Sensations 21. Desperate For Love 22. Island Of Thirst 23. Jinxed Passions 24. Little Hearts And Flowers 25. Love Chocolate 26. Midnight Tickles 27. Quarantined Ecstasy Fevers 28. Stone Age Affection 29. The Beat 30. The Strange Mr. Luke 31. Behind Closed Doors 32. Dark Chocolate 33. Dismantled Pleasures 34. Dream Killer 35. From Receptionist To Room Service 36. Jane Francis 37. Musical Passions 38. Passion’s Peak 39. She-Devil 40. The Government

40 XXX Erotic eBook Collection

Robert C. Allen

Ana M. Lopez

John Belton

Richard Abel

Noel Carroll

Naomi Greene

Ien Ang

Christopher Orr

Jean-Loup Bourget

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Pam Cook

Alan Casty

Charles Affron

Christian Viviani

Chuck Kleinhans

Charlotte Brunsdon

Cawelti, John G.

Gerould, Daniel

Brooks, Peter

Elsaesser, Thomas

Ruth McCormick

Ellen Seiter

A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama

Imitations of Life

Larissa Hjorth

Sarah Pink

Kristen Sharp

Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region -- a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects.

Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

Screen Ecologies

Christine Gledhill

For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.

Across History, Media, and National Cultures

Melodrama Unbound

Die Bücher der Trilogie „Das Erwachen von Navi Septa“ sind einmalig. Denn wenn der Leser versucht - im Gegensatz zu anderen Fantasy-Romanen - die Erfahrung einiger Charaktere nachzuvollziehen, indem er den abgesteckten Instruktionen folgt, kann er die erweiterte Wahrnehmung und die freudvolle Veränderung des Bewusstseins selbst erfahren. Als Teil des subtilen Systems, das dem menschlichen Sein zu Grunde liegt, repräsentieren die sieben Schlüssel die Qualitäten der sieben Chakren, der feinstofflichen Energiezentren. Sie helfen den – ebenfalls sieben – jungen Helden auf ihrer epischen Reise von Teletsia – einem von dämonischen Zauberern beherrschten Land – in das geheime Land Sasrar. Sie ermöglichen es ihnen auch, mehr über ihre Schwächen und Stärken zu erfahren und wie sie zusammenarbeiten müssen, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. Mit der Unterstützung von vielen Menschen, die die Erfahrung des Erwachens bereits gemacht haben, wurde diese Idee mit dem ersten Teil der Trilogie, "Den Schlüsseln der Weisheit", in die Praxis umgesetzt. Kinder (ab 10 Jahren) werden die drei spannend und flott geschriebenen Bücher als mitreißende Abenteuergeschichten lesen und Jugendliche die eingewebten zarten Romanzen genießen. Die Erwachsenen erkennen zweifelsohne die Satire und die spontane Weisheit in den allegorischen Geschichten.

Das Erwachen von Navi Septa - Die Schlüssel der Weisheit

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