Soft in the Middle
The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts
by David Andrews

"Soft in the Middle is an important new reading of a neglected but hugely significant area of contemporary film culture: the softcore feature film. David Andrews combines exhaustive research into a relatively unmined seam of film history with an energetically witty and lucid style. Whether formulating definitions of the ‘middlebrow,' or presenting models for understanding taste hierarchies, or grappling with judgments of ‘indecency,' or exploring softcore's uneasy relationship with feminist politics, Andrews sets his lively textual material squarely in the context of key debates in film studies today.
 
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