Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781101971024)

In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies--and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination--and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name--Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic s ance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

Author: David Thomson
ISBN-10: 1101971029
ISBN-13: 9781101971024
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d