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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire Suclass Code_10DA Weaving together actual cases ofIn this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the moviesand the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imaginationand drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by