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Table of Contents: “…Theory and practice : the criticism of Jean-Luc Godard -- 'Film comment' journals, 1974-1977 : excerpts -- Edinburgh encounters : a consumers/producers guide-in-progress to four recent avant-garde films -- Barthes & film : 12 suggestions -- A bluffer's guide to Bèla Tarr -- They drive by night : the criticism of Manny Farber -- Ozu's 'Good morning' -- Aspects of 'Anatahan' -- Gold diggers of 1953 : Howard Hawk's 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' -- 'Gertrud' as nonnarrative : the desire for the image -- 'The Manchurian candidate' -- 'Othello' goes Hollywood -- Work and play in the house of fiction : on Jacques Rivette -- The tyranny of sensitivity -- Love films : a Cassavetes retrospective -- The death of Hulot -- Orson Welles's essay films and documentary fictions : a two-part speculation -- The importance of being perverse : Godard's 'King Lear' -- Alain Resnais and 'Mélo' -- Jerry Lewis's 'Hardly working' -- 'Doomed love' : the masterpiece you missed -- 'Raiders of the lost ark' -- Mapping the territory of Râúl Ruiz -- Notes toward the devaluation of Woody Allen -- Crass consciousness : 'Barton fink' -- Bird watching -- Jean Vigo's secret : L'atalante -- Guilty by omission -- His master's vice : Fuller's 'White dog' -- Government lies : 'The Panama deception' and 'Deep cover' -- A cinema of uncertainty : films by Michelangelo Antonioni.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication -- self and embodiment.…”
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