Table of Contents

Introduction: media matrix

1. Film and fantasy: the perverse gaze

2. Big Brother: peep shows and reality TV

3. Television and taboo: the limits of Sex and the City

4. Women and post-porn: Romance to Annie Sprinkle

5. The full monty: postmodern men and the media

6. Mills + Boon dot com: the beast in the bedroom

7. Cybersex: from television to teledildonics

8. Queering the media: a gay gaze

9. The cyberstar: digital pleasures and the new reality

10. Crisis TV: terrorism and trauma

11. The global self and the new reality

About the Author

Barbara Creed is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. A well-known film critic and media commentator, she has been the Age film reviewer for 3 years and an ABC (3LO + 3RN) film critic for the past decade. She is the author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993) and co-editor of both Don't Shoot Darling! Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia (Greenhouse Press, 1987) and 'Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and

Colonialism in the Pacific' (Pluto + Routledge 2001). She has published widely in international journals such as Screen, New Formations, and Camera Obscura and her writings have been translated into German,

Swedish, Polish, Japanese and Italian.