Provocauteurs and Provocations

Maria San Filippo is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning book The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, and editor of the forthcoming collection After 'Happily Ever After': Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age.

• Prologue: Tangled Up in BluePart I: Provocations1. Selling Sex: Scandalous Marketing Campaigns and the Millennial Watercooler Movie2. Full-Frontal Provocation: Male Nudity as Non-Phallic MasculinityPart II: Provocauteurs3. Art Porn Provocauteurs: Feminist Critique through Corporeality in the Work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham4. Inbetweener (In)Appropriations: "Bad Queer" Provocauteurs Lisa Cholodenko and Desiree AkhavanEpilogue: Still Taboo? Provocative Acts, Vulnerable ViewingBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"One of the book's most notable contributions to the field is its emphasis on the portrayal of sexuality in films by women artists, many of whom have been discussed in this arena but not in this kind of depth and with this level of insight."—Michele Schreiber, author of Indie Reframed and American Postfeminist Cinema"This is one of the best and the most engrossing book I've read in my field in quite some time."—Carol Siegel, author of Sex Radical Cinema, Goth's Dark Empire, and New Millennial Sexstyles"Provocauteurs and Provocations delivers incredibly nuanced and deeply contextualized readings of a wide range of sexually provocative media texts. Reflecting the best work being done at the intersection of film/media studies and feminist/LGBTQ scholarship, it will be invaluable for helping us think through the ethical implications of screen media's current engagement with the pleasures and politics of sex."—Ron Becker, author of Gay TV and Straight America