Sexy thrills : undressing the erotic thriller / Nina K. Martin.

Author: Martin, Nina K., 1967-

Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.

Descriptionviii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction: Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller -- 1. Situating the Erotic Thriller as a Women's Genre -- 2. How to be a Good Female Heterosexual: The Erotic Thriller's Instructional Discourses -- 3. The Subject of Passion, the Object of Murder: Soft-core's Refashioning of the Gothic and Film Noir Genres -- 4. Viewing the Problem: Therapeutic Discourses and Soft-core's "Talking Cure" -- 5. Surveillance, Subjectivity, and Soft-core: "You Like to Watch, Don't You?" -- Conclusion: Whose Porn is it?: The Case of Women: Stories of Passion.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.

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