Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as ‚provocauteurs‘ known for challenging sexual conventions and representational norms.
While such strategies may at times be no more than a profitable lure, the most probing and powerful instances of sexual provocation serve to illuminate, question, and transform our understanding of sex and sexuality. In Provocauteurs and Provocations, award-winning author Maria San Filippo looks at the provocative in films, television series, web series and videos, entertainment industry publicity materials, and social media discourses and explores its potential to create alternative, even radical ways of screening sex.
Throughout this edgy volume, San Filippo reassesses troubling texts and divisive figures, examining controversial strategies—from ‚real sex‘ scenes to scandalous marketing campaigns to full-frontal nudity—to reveal the critical role that sexual provocation plays as an authorial signature and promotional strategy within the contemporary media landscape.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: Tangled Up in Blue
Part I: Provocations
1. Selling Sex: Scandalous Marketing Campaigns and the Millennial Watercooler Movie
2. Full-Frontal Provocation: Male Nudity as Non-Phallic Masculinity
Part II: Provoc auteurs
3. Art Porn Provocauteurs: Feminist Critique through Corporeality in the Work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham
4. Inbetweener (In)Appropriations: ‚Bad Queer‘ Provocauteurs Lisa Cholodenko and Desiree Akhavan
Epilogue: Still Taboo? Provocative Acts, Vulnerable Viewing
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Über den Autor
Maria San Filippo is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning book The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, and editor of the forthcoming collection After ‚Happily Ever After‘: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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