Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts /
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2006.
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Table of 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?