Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction

1. Intimacy: the Film
2. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality and Risk in Modernity
3. Intimacy and Romance in Film Theory
4a. 'Intimacy is what hurts when it's gone': approaching social audience analysis (Part 1)
4b. 'A man didn't make this film alone': Intertextual dialogue (Part 2
5. Brutal Intimacy: French Corporeal Cinema
6. 'Desperate for Intimacy': Loneliness and Fun in 9 Songs and Shortbus
7. Intimate Pleasures and the Madness of Love: Narrative in Ken Park and Irréversible
8. Actors and Sexual Intimacies: Trust, Mistrust and the Double Standards of Love
9. Secret Intimacies and Addictions in Le Secret
10. Beyond High Theories of Intimacy: authorship, performance and 'obscenity' in The Piano Teacher
11. Desire, Intimacy and the Gaze in the work of Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay

Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

About the Author

John Tulloch is Professor Emeritus in Communication at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in Communication, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.Belinda Middleweek is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Reviews

"Provides both academics and film buffs with an interesting look at the films that toe the line on what [is] acceptable in cinema." -- Dakota Ratley, Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"Media studies desperately needs more 'rainbow scholarship' like the impeccable work Tulloch and Middleweek have done here, especially on experiences that are so central to the human condition: intimacy, desire, and sex." --Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam, author of Media Life