Linda Williams, Screening Sex Duke U. Press, 2008
The portrayal of sexual themes and sex acts in film has morphed over time in ways and for reasons that fascinate Linda Williams. Why and how, she asks, did America go from being a culture that did not screen sex to one that does? Has the trajectory been simply one of revealing more and more on screen? In a new book Williams analyzes films like The Graduate, Last Tango in Paris and Brokeback Mountain.