Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.
Includes filmography: 237-244.
Contents
Forms and contexts -- Knowledge frameworks -- Formal conventions of cinematic sex -- Narrative formulas -- Institutional frameworks: censorship and regulation -- Rhetorics and forms of transgression -- Adultery: domestic transgressions -- The beast within: animal transformation and bestiality -- Family relations: incest in the cinema -- Bondage, domination and sado-masochism -- Real sex -- Coda: economies of desire.
