Even in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still hard to swallow. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and critical contexts. Contributions cover a wide range of topics from sex in the multiplex to online alt-porn, from women in stag films to the excesses of extreme pornography, and a variety of contemporary case studies including porn performance, fashion in hard-core, and gay and lesbian pornography.
Price: $32.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: WallFlower Press
Publication Date:
29 May 2012
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780231162135
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography
An excellent snapshot of porn studies as they are today and provides an insight into the range and quality of critical engagement with hardcore pornography in the industry, in the academy, and beyond.
Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is co-author of Fantasy (with Jacqueline Furby, 2011) and her research and publications focus on James Bond, men's magazines, and representations of gender and sexuality on screen. Darren Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. He is co-editor of Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities (with Donna Peberdy, 2012) and his research and publications focus on adaptation, pornography, and short films.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Is Hard-core Hard to Swallow?, by Claire Hines and Darren Kerr
Part One. Turned On: Hard-core Screen Cultures
1. Pornography in the Multiplex, by Brian McNair
2. The Dark Side of Hard-core: Critical Documentaries on the Sex Industry, by Karen Boyle
3. Art School Sluts: Authenticity and the Aesthetics of Altporn, by Feona Attwood
4. Pornogogy: Teaching the Titillating, by Mark Jones and Gerry Carlin
Part Two. Come Again? Hard-core in History
5. 'White Slavery', Or the Ethnography of 'Sexworkers', by Linda Williams
6. Lost in Damnation: The Progressive Potential of Behind the Green Door, by Darren Kerr
7. The Limits of Pleasure? Max Hardcore and Extreme Porn, by Stephen Maddison
8. Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-core, by Claire Hines
Part Three. Fluid Exchanges: Hard-core Forms and Aesthetics
9. Fashionably Laid: The Styling of Hard-core, by Pamela Church Gibson and Neil Kirkham
10. Shortbus: Highbrow Hard-core, by Beth Johnson
11. Homespun: Finnporn and the Meanings of the Local, by Susanna Paasonen
12. Reel Intercourse: Doing Sex on Camera, by Clarissa Smith
13. Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video, by John Mercer
14. Interrogating Lesbian Pornography: Gender, Sexual Iconography and Spectatorship , by Rebecca Beirne
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