Adapting Sex on Screen
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-53813-9 (ISBN)
Sex has always been cinema’s most contested territory. Adapting Sex on Screen traces that battle through three once scandalous source texts: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs (1870), Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde (1900), and Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays (1895–1904), following the history of their reception from fin de siècle Central Europe to the USA in the twenty-first century, with a focus on their screen adaptations.
Julian 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 Lulu film made in Germany in 1917 to the most recent La Ronde, made in New York precisely one hundred years later.
Julian Preece is Professor of German at Swansea University, UK. His previous books include The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (BFI Film Classics, 2022) and (as editor) Andreas Dresen (Peter Lang, 2017). He is the editor of The Journal of European Studies and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: How Can Books Have Cinematic Biographies?
Chapter One
Source Texts: Controversy and Control
1. Philosophy in the Bedroom: The early years of Venus in Furs
2. Welcome to the Dance: the first steps of Reigen
3. From Page to Stage: the many lives of Lulu
Chapter Two
Weimar: Prohibition and Experiment
1. Reigen is prosecuted in Berlin and Vienna
2. Literary afterlives of Venus in Furs
3. Lulu on the Silent Screen
4. Nazis and the End of Freedom
Chapter Three
Restoration: Screening Sex Postwar
1. Venus and Furs under cover
2. Reigen in No Man’s Land
3. Lulu revived, or Louise Brooks forever
Chapter Four
Sploitation: Emancipation in the Marketplace
1. Battle over Wanda
2. Reigen ambushed by the Sex Wave
3. From Life to Art and Art to Life
Chapter Five
Avantgarde: Feminisms and Alternative Sexualities
1. Radicalism Redux
2. Lulu liberated?
3. Wanda empowered?
4. Reigen Reclaimed?
Chapter Six
Indie: AIDS, La Ronde, and States of the Nation
1. Lulu goes to America
2. Polanski’s Prequel to Venus in Fur
3. Transatlantic Reigen
(i) Snapshots of the City: New York, Toronto, L.A.
(ii) Broken Catalonia
(iii) American Personal
(iv) Return to Berlin
(v) Machismo mexicano
Chapter Seven
Heritage: Lulu's Escape, Wanda's Revenge and the Senator's Smile
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 580 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-53813-2 / 1350538132 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-53813-9 / 9781350538139 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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