Screening Sex Reviewed in Bookforum

Laura Kipnis reviews Linda Williams's Screening Sex in the new issue of Bookforum. "For those who object to the rise of pornography studies as an academic subfield or balk at paying astronomical tuition so their kids can watch people boink on-screen for course credit, Linda Williams is the one to blame," Kipnis begins. But she ends the review with more serious praise: "Williams is a smooth writer, and even her most scholarly arguments feel lively, though far more engrossing are the vignettes about her own coming-of-age as a movie-sex spectator. . . ."