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CONTEMPORARYEROTIC CINEMADOUGLAS KEESEYThe first book to look at truly contemporary erotic cinema, thispublication gives in-depth analyses of sex scenes from over 100 films,more than half of them released in the 21st century. Beginning withan overview of how depictions of sex on screen have changed overthe last 40 years, with particular attention to censorship controversies,the book is divided into three main parts – erotic genres, themesand acts – and covers sex comedies, body horror, alien sex and eroticanimation; gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans films, movies about youth,marriage and infidelity, films dealing with incest, blasphemy and death;on-screen nudity and voyeurism, masturbation, oral and anal sex, theménage à trois and the orgy, and bestiality, rape and sadomasochism.Douglas Keesey is a professor of film and literature at California Polytechnic StateUniversity. His published books include Neo-Noir: Contemporary Film Noir fromChinatown to The Dark Knight (Kamera Books) as well as Catherine Breillat, DonDeLillo, Erotic Cinema, Peter Greenaway, and Paul Verhoeven.www.kamerabooks.com/eroticcinemaSCREENPLAYSHOW TO WRITE AND SELL THEMCRAIG BATTYAn accessible yet comprehensive guide aimed at those with a keeninterest in writing feature film screenplays. Using case studies,creative exercises and interviews from the industry, Craig Battyguides readers through the necessary stages of writing a screenplay,from finding and developing ideas to creating and executingcharacters to shaping structure and constructing scenes. It considershow a screenplay might be sold, or used to raise interest in thewriter, looking at areas such as finding and working with an agent,networking, using competitions, and raising private productionfunds. With analyses from classic and contemporary films, practicalmodels, paradigms, creative tasks and the views of key industryfigures, the book is a must for any aspiring feature film screenwriter.Dr Craig Batty is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at RMITUniversity in Melbourne, Australia. He is a writer and script consultant, andhas worked on many short film, feature film and television projects. Heis the author of Movies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of theProtagonist’s Journey (2011).www.kamerabooks.com/screenplays14AVAILABLE JULY 2012‘B’ format (198 X 129mm)paperback original 160pp + 8pp ColourRights: WorldISBN: 978-1-84243-363-8 £12.99AVAILABLE JULY 2012ePub: 978-1-84243-646-2 £9.99AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2012‘B’ format (198 X 129mm)paperback original 256ppRights: WorldISBN: 978-1-84243-503-8 £16.99AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2012ePub: 978-1-84243-643-1 £12.99