{"product_id":"adapting-sex-on-screen","title":"Adapting Sex on Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003eSex has always been cinema’s most contested territory.\u003ci\u003e Adapting Sex on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e traces that battle through three once scandalous source texts: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s \u003ci\u003eVenus in Furs\u003c\/i\u003e (1870), Arthur Schnitzler’s \u003ci\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/i\u003e (1900), and Frank Wedekind’s \u003ci\u003eLulu\u003c\/i\u003e plays (1895–1904), following the history of their reception from \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Central Europe to the USA in the twenty-first century, with a focus on their screen adaptations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Preece shows how directors such as Max Ophüls, G. W. Pabst, and Roman Polanski tested understanding of transgression, whether in the Weimar Republic, under the Hays Production Code, or in the shadow of AIDS and the wake of second-wave feminism. His broad international corpus ranges from heritage cinema to arthouse and exploitation to Hollywood, allowing him to explore the contradictions between commodification and critique, and chart evolving attitudes towards alternative sexualities and minorities. Preece blends adaptation and translation studies with transatlantic cultural history to show how filmmakers have both reflected and shaped social change, from the first \u003ci\u003eLulu\u003c\/i\u003e film made in Germany in 1917 to the most recent \u003ci\u003eLa Ronde\u003c\/i\u003e, made in New York precisely one hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54994197086552,"sku":"9781350538139","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350538139.jpg?v=1770915635","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/adapting-sex-on-screen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}