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Robert Thomas Eberwein - Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire - 9780813526379 - V9780813526379
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Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire

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Description for Sex Ed: Film, Video and the Framework of Desire Paperback. An overview of sex education films in the context of American culture, from 1914 to the present. The author demonstrates how film and video used for sex education have provided a complex ideological framework in which questions of sexuality, gender, and race are foregrounded. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; APFA; HBTB; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
In a 1914 movie, Damaged Goods, a doctor shows a character the horrific effects of venereal disease. In contrast, many of today's sex ed videos encourage viewers to realize their sexuality more fully as a source of pleasure. In Sex Ed, Robert Eberwein demonstrates how films and videos used for sex education have provided a complex ideological framework in which questions of sexuality, gender, and race are compellingly foregrounded.

Eberwein starts his investigation in the silent and early sound eras with educational films used both to warn audiences about venereal disease and to provide basic contraception information. World War II movies, he states, waged their own war against venereal disease-in the armed services and at home. Newer works deal with birth control and focus in particular on AIDS.

Sex Ed also highlights the classroom. Eberwein draws connections between the earliest and most recent examples of educational films as he analyzes their ideological complexity. He concludes by examining marriage-manual films of the early 1970s and very recent videos for couples and individuals seeking instruction in sexual techniques to increase pleasure.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rutgers University Press New Jersey
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813526379
SKU
V9780813526379
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Ref
99-15

About Robert Thomas Eberwein
Robert Eberwein teaches courses in film history, theory, and appreciation in the English Department at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His publications include Film and the Dream Screen and other works on film theory and criticism.

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