{"product_id":"2940169182712","title":"Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated film critic and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Biographical Dictionary of Film\u003c\/i\u003e, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm can make us want things we cannot have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining criticism, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, and memoir, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from advertising to pornography, Rudolph Valentino to \u003ci\u003eMoonlight\u003c\/i\u003e, Rock Hudson to \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name\u003c\/i\u003e, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to \u003ci\u003ePhantom Thread\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art, entertainment, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100411314416,"sku":"2940169182712","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169182712_p0.jpg?v=1763674701","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169182712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}