Deviant Cinema: A history of Sexual Dominance and Submission in the Movies

The public spankings of Kathryn Grayson in Kiss me Kate or of Maureen O'Hara in McLintock are iconic, but the emotions and conflicts that they address are common preoccupations and recur continuously as themes in the global cinema. Buried in the vast inventory of movies released over the last century are almost 2,500 that partly or fully portray sexual dominance and submission of both genders, mental and physical, heavy and light, erotic as well as pornographic, documentary as well as ficti...