Abstinence cinema : virginity and the rhetoric of sexual purity in contemporary film / Casey Ryan Kelly.

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Kelly, Casey Ryan, 1979-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813575131
0813575133
9780813575124
0813575125

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Abstinence cinema.DDC classification:

791.43/6538 23

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PN1995.9.V55 K45 2016eb

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Contents:

Introduction: the cinema of abstinence -- Melodrama and postfeminist abstinence: The twilight saga (2008-2012) -- Man/boys and born-again virgins: the 40-year-old virgin (2005) -- The monstrous girls and absentee fathers of horror: The possession (2012) -- Abstinence, the global sex industry, and racial violence: Taken (2008) -- Sexsploitation in abstinence satires -- Conclusion: counternarratives.

Summary: Abstinence Cinema tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. Locating these regressive sexual politics in everything from Twilight to Taken to Superbad, Casey Ryan Kelly examines how these films echo the rhetoric of the evangelical abstinence-only movement, then analyzes how they are particularly disempowering to young women, who are judged strictly on the basis of their sexuality.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Abstinence Cinema tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. Locating these regressive sexual politics in everything from Twilight to Taken to Superbad, Casey Ryan Kelly examines how these films echo the rhetoric of the evangelical abstinence-only movement, then analyzes how they are particularly disempowering to young women, who are judged strictly on the basis of their sexuality.

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