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screening sex
sex on film
sex on television
sexual culture
the sex scene
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- ISBN 9781399520010
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Sex Scene Volume 1: Space, Place and History complements The Sex Scene Volume 2: Representation, Performance Industry. The volumes are also intended to work as standalone collections, offering a comprehensive yet accessible starting point for students, scholars and researchers exploring representations of sex on screen and its significance in sexual cultures.
Collectively, the essays consider histories and controversies (screen, legal, censorial, critical), industrial contexts and labour (writing, directing, performing, editing), the mise-en-scène of the sex scene (content, aesthetics, representation) and temporality and approach (in genres, form and style).
Darren Kerr is Associate Professor of Sexual Cultures and Head of the Bath School of Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University, UK. His research interests focus on the politics and representation of sexual cultures on screen. His publications largely focus on pornography, perversion and sexual violence, and include Hard to Swallow: Hard-core Pornography on Screen (2012), Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion (2017) and two-volume collection The Sex Scene (2026). He is series editor of Edinburgh University Press’s Screening Sex book series, a member of Routledge’s Porn Studies editorial board and co-director of the Screening Sex network. Donna Peberdy is Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender at Southampton Solent University, UK. Her publications include Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (2011), Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion (2017) and two-volume collection The Sex Scene (2026). She is a series editor of Edinburgh University Press’s Screening Sex book series and co-director of the Screening Sex network. Donna is currently writing a book Screening Sexual Violence, supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.
