9781101946992

Sleeping with Strangers

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781101946992

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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 women's 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 seance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live.

ISBN-13

9781101946992

ISBN-10

1101946997

Weight

1.59 Pounds

Dimensions

6.50 x 1.50 x 9.75 In

List Price

$28.95

Format

Hardcover

Pages

352 pages

Publisher

Knopf

Published On

2019-01-29



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