Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies : Sex, Brains and Body Guys.
A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. Lady Chatterl...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Hunt, Susan. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
| Summary: | A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies relates a host of wide-ranging films to a literary tradition dating back to Lady Chatterley's Lover and an emerging body culture of our time. The authors argue that the hero's body, lovemaking style, and penis-revealed through extensive male nudity-celebrate conform. Titanic . Two Moon Junction . A Night in Heaven . Sirens . Henry & June . 9 Songs . Lady Chatterley . And more. A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. This body guy exhibits a masterful athletic, penile-centered sexual performance that enlivens and transforms the previously discontented woman's life.<br> <br> Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt relate a host of wide-ranging films to a literary tradition dating back to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and an emerging body culture of our time. Through an engaging and compelling narrative, they argue that the hero's body, lovemaking style, and penis-revealed through extensive male nudity-celebrate conformity to norms of masculinity and male sexuality. Simultaneously, these films denigrate the vital, creative, erotic world of the mind. Just when women began to successfully compete with men in the workplace, these movies, if you will, unzip the penis as the one thing women do not have but want and need for their fulfillment.<br> <br> But Lehman and Hunt also find signs of a yearning for alternative forms of sexual and erotic pleasure in film, embracing diverse bodies and vibrant minds. Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies shows how filmmakers, spectators, and all of us can be empowered to dethrone the body guy, his privileged body, and preferred style of lovemaking, replacing it with a wide range of alternatives. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813550299 0813550297 1283383217 9781283383219 9786613383211 661338321X |
| Author Notes: | SUSAN HUNT teaches film studies at Santa Monica and Pasadena City Colleges. She has coauthored numerous articles on film and sexuality for many journals and anthologies. |