Description: Discusses the critical and cultural value of the sex scene.
Brief description: Donna Peberdy is Professor of Gender, Sexuality, Screen and Culture 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.
Review Quotes: At a moment when sex scenes are reportedly disappearing from mainstream cinema, editors Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy bring together a diverse and engaging collection of essays that interrogate what this absence means. Spanning contemporary screen media, this volume offers fresh, timely insights into how sexual content is shaped, regulated and reimagined.-- "Clarissa Smith, Professor of Media, Northumbria University"