“Time to Say ‘Yes’ to Sex”: Genre Mixing and Aesthetic Rebellion in Five Multi Media Resource Center Films

dc.contributor.advisor	Hanna, Erin
dc.contributor.author	Laudick, Ann
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-06T22:00:37Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-06T22:00:37Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-06
dc.description.abstract	In the 1960s to 1970s, an audacious group of Methodist clergymen redistributed erotic art films, while producing their own content in a similar style, with the goal of creating a progressive sexual education program. Looking at five such films, this thesis uses a cultural approach to genre theory to examine how the Multi Media Resource Center combined the genre-label of sexual education and aesthetics of art cinema to legitimize explicit representations of sex that depart from heteronormative sexual practices. This thesis explores how the films’ failure to fit into any one genre category, even as labels are forced upon them as an industrial practice, illuminates how cultural power was operating to regulate sex and sexuality.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23794
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon
dc.rights	All Rights Reserved.
dc.title	“Time to Say ‘Yes’ to Sex”: Genre Mixing and Aesthetic Rebellion in Five Multi Media Resource Center Films
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.discipline	School of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Oregon
thesis.degree.level	masters
thesis.degree.name	M.S.

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