{"product_id":"abstinence-cinema-casey-ryan-kelly-9780813575100","title":"Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, \u003ci\u003eAbstinence Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from \u003ci\u003eEasy A\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eTaken\u003c\/i\u003e. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. \u003ci\u003eAbstinence Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Casey Ryan Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813575109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813575100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016","brand":"Casey Ryan Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926408233215,"sku":"9780813575100","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a5e7c9c8-f5ad-4f23-a40d-823199b47a45.jpg?v=1681082921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/abstinence-cinema-casey-ryan-kelly-9780813575100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}