Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / David Andrews.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (334 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814272336
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Contents:
Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?
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Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?

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