Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies: Sex, Brains, and Body Guys

by Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt

Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt relate a host of wide-ranging films to a literary tradition dating back to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and an emerging body culture of our time. Through an engaging and compelling narrative, they argue that the hero's body, lovemaking style, and penis-revealed through extensive male nudity-celebrate conformity to norms of masculinity and male sexuality. Simultaneously, these films denigrate the vital,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813548020
• ISBN13: 9780813548029
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"