As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-sc- of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole.The Space of Sex-s second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader-s The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone-s Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh-s Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier-s Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt-s Don Jon (2013). Ea
