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Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema´s love affair with the erotic. Forshaw´s lively study moves from the sexual abandon of the 1930s to filmmakers´ circumvention of censorship, the demolition of taboos by arthouse directors and pornographic films, and an examination of how explicit imagery invaded modern mainstream cinema.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The 1930s: Mae West, Garbo, Harlow, Dietrich and the Coming of the Legion of Decency 2. Getting it Past the Bluenoses: The 1940s 3. The Kinsey Era: The 1950s 4. Pushing the Boundaries: Preminger the Rebel 5. This Property is Condemned: Tennessee Williams 6. Arthouse cinema: the New Explicitness 7. Sex à la Fran‡ais 8. World Cinema Strategies: Britain and America: The 1960s 9. World Cinema Strategies: Europe 10. No Fun Being a Pornographer: Ingmar Bergman and Nagisa Oshima 11. The 1970s: Exploitation Joins the Mainstream 12. Vixens and Valleys: Russ Meyer´s Cinema 13. British Smut 14. The Porn Revolution 15. Sex in the Mainstream: The 80s and 90s 16. Anything Goes: the 21st Century 17. The End of Sex: The New Puritanism 18. Painful Odysseys Appendix 1 Appendix 2

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´Forshaw gets under the skin of a topic. His writing is accessible and informed, dripping with detail, drawing on often surprising, striking and illuminating comparisons.´ Dr Steven Peacock, Reader in Film and Television Aesthetics

´Barry Forshaw brings his knowledge, intelligence and, above all else, passion to each of his books that expertly offer fresh insights.´ Stephen Jones, award-winning editor

´Forshaw is bang on about the films you already know but (even more importantly) makes you eager to track down and watch the lesser-known gems you haven´t seen.´ Anne Billson, film critic

´Forshaw offers fresh perceptions and quirky insights drawn from his considerable cultural range.´ Ramsey Campbell, writer, film critic and editor

´Barry Forshaw´s studies marry erudition with a film fan´s obvious relish.´ Stephen Volk, screenwriter and novelist

´Forshaw discovers many neglected pictures. His books are for pleasure and instruction, and then to keep on the reference shelf.´ Philip French, The Observer

´Formidably well-researched and erudite.´ Daily Mail

´The real value of this concise and comprehensive history of sex and censorship is the author´s astute psychological assessment of the personalities in front of and behind the camera, as well as those who have attempted to impose their sense of morality on the movies.´ Good Book Guide

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Barry Forshaw´s books include Death in a Cold Climate, British Crime Film, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, Italian Cinema, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia , and a biography of Stieg Larsson. He has written for a variety of newspapers, Crime Time, and is a talking head for ITV author profiles and BBC documentaries.

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