Real Sex Films

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production narrative genre authorship stardom spectatorship and social audience as several lenses of understanding and extension in ways of seeing real-sex cinema. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance disciplinary co-operation and critique and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy desire risk and transgression. This book substantively methodologically and theoretically embraces and engages in its consideration of the images ethics double standards and embodiments of brutal cinema. Crossing the boundaries of film studies media and cultural studies the ethnographic turn risk sociology feminist psychoanalytical and geopolitical studies this is a book for students academics as well as general and professional audiences.