JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

Sex versus the small screen: home video censorship and Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también

Caetlin Benson-Allott

Caetlin Benson-Allott is an assistant professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She is currently revising a manuscript on the challenges video distribution and exhibition pose to film studies’ disciplinary identity and spectatorship theory in particular.  She is working on an essay on Vanishing Point (dir. Richard Sarafian, 1971) and exploitation philosophy for the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Tokyo. She is also completing a review essay for Film Quarterly about Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure and digital epistomology.

She teaches courses in gender and technology studies, the history of new media, feminist methodologies, and the technology of horror.  Her recent article “Before You Die, You See The Ring: Notes on the Imminent Obsolescence of VHS” appeared in Jump Cut no. 49 and was particularly formative in her dedication to online scholarship.  Caetlin welcomes any questions or comments at caetlin@ucsc.edu.

The following websites may be of interest in relationship to this article:

“Before You Die, You See The Ring: Notes on the Imminent Obsolescence of VHS”:
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/
jc49.2007/bensonAllott/index.html
           
"Ratings History": http://www.mpaa.org/Ratings_history1.asp

 “The Heyday of Foreign Films”:           
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1557886-1,00.html

“Consumer Spending Reaches $24.3 Billion For Yearly Home Video Sales”:
http://www.digitalentertainmentinfo.com/
News/press/CES010506.htm