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

“Damon R. Young's beautifully written book shows how we might find the visual economy of neoliberalism compressed into the sexual charge of films from the 1950s to the present. This is a gorgeous book of queer theory and film criticism that tracks the wayward travels of sexual difference and neoliberal sexuality through a wide range of visual works. Extravagant and precise, this book is indispensable reading for our times.” — Judith Butler

"In prose as stylish as the cinema history he reveals anew, Damon R. Young flips the script on the sexual revolution of our times. Making Sex Public shows how the sleaziest sexploitation film models the modern liberal subject in all her contradiction, and re-views the French New Wave through a queer and feminist optic. Taking feminine jouissance and homosexual desire as central to how sex was made public in France and the United States since the Sixties, Young vindicates the perverse aims and liberatory intentions of queer theory at its finest. Sacred cows will explode, sacre bleu!" — Tavia Nyong’o, author of, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life

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