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 story of a single factory girl that enjoys a brief sexual relationship, illustrates the argument by analysing the contemporary sexual behaviour and the social and familial reactions to this.