Researching Sex and the Cinema in the #MeToo Age. Issue 1 (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Frey, Mattias; Janssen, Sara
• Is Part Of: Film studies. Volume 18:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 13
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: film studies -- representation -- pornography -- media industries -- research methods; Motion pictures -- History -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Periodicals; 791.43
• DOI: 10.7227/FS.18.0001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1469-0314

Abstract

Abstract : This introduction to the Film Studies special issue on Sex and the Cinema considers the special place of sex as an object of inquiry in film studies. Providing an overview of three major topic approaches and methodologies – (1) representation, spectatorship and identity politics; (2) the increasing scrutiny of pornography; and (3) new cinema history/media industries studies – this piece argues that the parameters of and changes to the research of sex, broadly defined, in film studies reflect the development of the field and discipline since the 1970s, including the increased focus on putatively 'low' cultural forms, on areas of film culture beyond representation and on methods beyond textual/formal analysis.