Women's premarital sex cultures and British silent cinema

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: B, Edinburgh Napier University, language: English, abstract: This essay discusses how British silent cinema engaged with its contemporary cultural practices in regards to premarital sex and related moral obligations in the society in the first quarter of twentieth century. The film ‘Hindle Wakes’ (1927), which tells a st...