Sex ed : film, video, and the framework of desire
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Sex ed : film, video, and the framework of desire
Rutgers University Press, c1999
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Sex education
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780813526362
Description
An overview of sex education films in the context of American culture, from 1914 to the present. The author demonstrates how film and video used for sex education have provided a complex ideological framework in which questions of sexuality, gender, and race are foregrounded.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813526379
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In a 1914 movie, Damaged Goods, a doctor shows a character the horrific effects of venereal disease. In contrast, many of today's sex ed videos encourage viewers to realize their sexuality more fully as a source of pleasure. In Sex Ed, Robert Eberwein demonstrates how films and videos used for sex education have provided a complex ideological framework in which questions of sexuality, gender, and race are compellingly foregrounded.
Eberwein starts his investigation in the silent and early sound eras with educational films used both to warn audiences about venereal disease and to provide basic contraception information. World War II movies, he states, waged their own war against venereal disease-in the armed services and at home. Newer works deal with birth control and focus in particular on AIDS.
Sex Ed also highlights the classroom. Eberwein draws connections between the earliest and most recent examples of educational films as he analyzes their ideological complexity. He concludes by examining marriage-manual films of the early 1970s and very recent videos for couples and individuals seeking instruction in sexual techniques to increase pleasure.
Table of Contents
The initial phase, 1914-1939
World War II and the attack on venereal disease
Youths and their bodies
Films and videos for adults, 1946-present
Learning about pleasure
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