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

216 Pages·2010·1.574 MB·English

by  Peter Lehman, Professor Susan Hunt

Lady Chatterley’s
Legacy in the Movies
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Lady Chatterley’s
Legacy in the Movies
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Sex, Brains, and Body Guys
Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt
rutgers university press
new brunswick, new jersey, and london
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lehman, Peter.
Lady Chatterley’s legacy in the movies : sex, brains, and body guys / Peter Lehman
and Susan Hunt.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–8135–4802–9(hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Sex role in motion pictures. 2. Sex in motion pictures. 3. Stereotypes (Social
psychology) in motion pictures. 4. Women in motion pictures. 5. Men in motion
pictures. I. Hunt, Susan. II. Title.
PN1995.9.S47L44 2010
791.43(cid:2)653538—dc22
2009048297
A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British
Library.
Copyright © 2010by Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt
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For Robert Flynt, friend and photographer
Peter Lehman
For Michael Hart, who inspires my writing,
and for my parents, Charles and Marian Hunt,
who inspired this book
Susan Hunt

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. “Everything You Are Is between Your Legs” 1
2. Rebels, Outsiders, Artists, and ... Brutes? 27
3. “Fuck Me like a Cop, Not a Lawyer” 53
4. “Brain Work Isn’t Much of a Spectator Sport” 79
5. Hung like a Horse ... or an Acorn 105
6. Unmaking Love 136
7. “Why Do You Say That as if It Were a Weakness?
It’s Not.” 161
Notes 185
Bibliography 191
Index 195
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Illustrations
1. Titanic 2
2. Titanic 3
3. Legends of the Fall 6
4. The Piano 7
5. Two Moon Junction 10
6. The Blue Lagoon 16
7. A Night in Heaven 17
8. Lawn Dogs 29
9. Lawn Dogs 30
10. Munich 43
11. Twentynine Palms 50
12. Asylum 64
13. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus 67
14. The Last Seduction 71
15. Any Given Sunday 73
16. Any Given Sunday 76
17. Jews facing execution during the Holocaust 87
18. Sunshine 89
19. Oz 91
20. Enemy at the Gates 94
21. Sideways 95
22. Sideways 97
23. The Governess 100
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