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Book SynopsisUnlike the bulk of soft-core pornography, direct-to-video erotic thriller films are made specifically to appeal to women. This title argues that this makes them a valuable resource for investigating female sexuality, subjectivity, and gender construction, and uses them to examine the construction of female desire.
Trade Review"Film criticism has a long history of reevaluating critically ignored and despised genres such as pornography and teen slasher films.
Sexy Thrills is the first book to fully address and explore the major genre development in cinema commonly referred to as the erotic thriller. In this extremely well-researched, -organized, and -written book, Martin makes a strong case for the importance of these films from a feminist perspective."
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Peter Lehman, editor of
Pornography: Film and Culture“Martin makes a series of impressive arguments about the themes, subtext, and stylistic innovations of the format that could send academic audiences back to their Tivo for more than simply cheap thrills.”--
Sexuality & Culture
