Damon R. Young is Assistant Professor of French and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Making Sex Public  1
Part I. Women
1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject  21
2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex  54
Part II. Criminals
3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil  95
4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract  122
Part III. Citizens
5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy  159
6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus  187
Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality  215
Notes  239
Bibliography  279
Index  295