Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages."

~Guy Davidson, Continuum

"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible."

~Ricky Varghese, Public

"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed."

~Nick Davis, GLQ

"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex."

~Sam Hunter, Film & History

"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies."

~Haley Hvdson, Synoptique

"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies."

~Nick Rees-Roberts, Journal of the History of Sexuality