02046cam a2200301 i 4500 367936315 TxAuBib 20190204120000.0 180424s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018017604 9781101946992 28.95 1101946997 28.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Thomson, David, 1941- Sleeping with strangers [BOOK] : how the movies shaped desire / David Thomson. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book". Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, and memoir, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art, entertainment, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live. Provided by publisher. 20190204. Men in motion pictures. Machismo in motion pictures. Homosexuality in motion pictures. Women in motion pictures.