Porn studies

Porn studies / edited by Linda Williams.

'Porn Studies' offers a cultural study of pornographic film & video, acknowledging that with a generated revenue greater than that of American football, basketball & baseball combined, pornography has assumed a central role in contemporary American popular culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Williams, Linda, 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pornography > Social aspects.
Pornographic films > History and criticism.
Erotic films > History and criticism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography
Erotic films
Pornographic films
Pornography > Social aspects
Pornografie
Sexfilm
Pornografie.
Pornografische films.
Histoire.
Pornographie.
Film érotique.
Aspect social.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Porn studies: proliferating pornographies on/scene: an introduction / Linda Williams
  • I: Contemporary pornographies
  • How to do things with the Starr Report: pornography, performance, and the president's penis / Maria St. John
  • Sex in the suburban: porn, home movies, and the live action performance of love in Pam and Tommy Lee: hardcore and uncensored / Minette Hillyer
  • Office sluts and rebel flowers: the pleasures of Japanese pornographic comics for women / Deborah Shamoon
  • Going on-line: consuming pornography in the digital era / Zabet Patterson
  • II: Gay, lesbian, and homosocial pornographies
  • Homosociality in the classical American stag film: off-screen, on-screen / Thomas Waugh
  • The cultural-aesthetic specificities of all-male moving-image pornography / Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo
  • What do you call a lesbian with long fingers? The development of lesbian and dyke pornography / Heather Butler
  • The gay sex clerk: Chuck Vincent's straight pornography / Jake Gerli
  • III: Pornography, race, and class
  • The resurrection of Brandon Lee: the making of a gay Asian American porn star / Nguyen Tan Hoang
  • Skin flicks on the racial border: pornography, exploitation, and interracial lust / Linda Williams
  • Crackers and whackers: the white trashing of porn / Constance Penley
  • IV: Soft core, hard core, and the pornographic sublime
  • Pinup: the American secret weapon in World War II / Despina Kakoudaki
  • Gauging a revolution: 16mm film and the rise of the pornographic feature / Eric Schaefer
  • Video pornography, visual pleasure, and the return of the sublime / Franklin Melendez
  • V: Pornography and/as avant-garde
  • Andy Warhol's Blow Job: toward the recognition of a pornographic avant-garde / Ara Osterweil
  • Unbracketing motion study: Scott Stark's NOEMA / Michael Sicinski.

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