Semen on Screen

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More by Steven Carrier : Semen on Screen

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Sex leaves a trace.

Cinema decides what happens to it.

Across eighteen films-from Pink Narcissus and Shortbus to Saltburn and Queer-Steven Carrier examines visible semen as evidence of how cinema frames and governs the male body. Anatomy, performance, and desire become inseparable from the rooms, institutions, and screens that organize them.

Moving through private fantasy, public space, digital platforms, and grief, Semen on Screen follows the aftermath that sex leaves behind. It asks who gets to leave a trace, who must carry it, and what its fate reveals about intimacy and power.

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