Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

Winner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of...
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Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
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Language: English
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Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Kelly, Casey Ryan

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

$136.10

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

$136.10
Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association

From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.

Author: Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780813575100
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016

About the Author
CASEY RYAN KELLY is an associate professor of critical communication and media studies at Butler University, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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