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  • Published: 29 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984840318
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Sleeping With Strangers

How the Movies Shaped Desire





In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

  • Published: 29 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984840318
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Praise for Sleeping With Strangers

Praise for David Thomson:

  • "David Thomson is, without doubt, the greatest living film historian, archivist, and professional fan . . . His passion is often infectious." --Los Angeles Times

  • "Probably the greatest living film critic and historian, Thomson writes the most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael." --The Atlantic

  • "You read Thomson for contact with an urbane and provocative intelligence." --The Washington Post

  • "Unfussy and debonair, his cool common-sensibility blending seamlessly with a dynamic eccentricity, David Thomson writes like the world's most literary film critic." --NPR
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