Damon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." - Guy Davidson (Continuum) "Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." - Ricky Varghese (Public) "Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." - Nick Davis (GLQ) "Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." - Sam Hunter (Film & History) "Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." - Haley Hvdson (Synoptique) "[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." - Nick Rees-Roberts (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Making Sex Public  1Part I. Women1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject  212. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex  54Part II. Criminals3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil  954. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract  122Part III. Citizens5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy  1596. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus  187Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality  215Notes  239Bibliography  279Index  295

Damon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." - Guy Davidson (Continuum) "Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." - Ricky Varghese (Public) "Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." - Nick Davis (GLQ) "Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." - Sam Hunter (Film & History) "Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." - Haley Hvdson (Synoptique) "[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." - Nick Rees-Roberts (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Making Sex Public  1Part I. Women1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject  212. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex  54Part II. Criminals3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil  954. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract  122Part III. Citizens5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy  1596. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus  187Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality  215Notes  239Bibliography  279Index  295

Damon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." - Guy Davidson (Continuum) "Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." - Ricky Varghese (Public) "Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." - Nick Davis (GLQ) "Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." - Sam Hunter (Film & History) "Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." - Haley Hvdson (Synoptique) "[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." - Nick Rees-Roberts (Journal of the History of Sexuality)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Making Sex Public  1Part I. Women1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject  212. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex  54Part II. Criminals3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil  954. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract  122Part III. Citizens5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy  1596. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus  187Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality  215Notes  239Bibliography  279Index  295