Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire.

Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, and memoir, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art, entertainment, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic sÃ©ance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-01-29
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781101946992

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-01-29
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781101946992

Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

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