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Porn Studies
Taschenbuch von Linda Williams
Sprache: Englisch

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In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. Porn Studies resists the tendency to situate pornography as the outer limit of what can be studied and discussed. With revenues totaling between ten and fourteen billion dollars annually-more than the combined revenues of professional football, basketball, and baseball-visual, hard-core pornography is a central feature of American popular culture. It is time, Williams contends, for scholars to recognize this and give pornography a serious and extended analysis.
The essays in this volume move beyond feminist debates and distinctions between a "good" erotica and a "bad" hard core. Contributors examine varieties of pornography from the tradition of the soft-core pin-up through the contemporary hard-core tradition of straight, gay, and lesbian videos and dvds to the burgeoning phenomenon of pornography on the Internet. They explore, as examples of the genre, individual works as divergent as The Starr Report, the pirated Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson honeymoon video, and explicit Japanese "ladies' comics" consumed by women. They also probe difficult issues such as the sexualization of race and class and the relationship of pornography to the avant-garde. To take pornography seriously as an object of analysis also means teaching it. Porn Studies thus includes a useful annotated bibliography of readings and archival sources important to the study of pornography as a cultural form.
Contributors. Heather Butler, Rich Cante, Jake Gerli, Minette Hillyer, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Despina Kakoudaki, Franklin Melendez, Ara Osterweil, Zabet Patterson, Constance Penley, Angelo Restivo, Eric Schaefer, Michael Sicinski, Deborah Shamoon, Maria St. John, Tom Waugh, Linda Williams
In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. Porn Studies resists the tendency to situate pornography as the outer limit of what can be studied and discussed. With revenues totaling between ten and fourteen billion dollars annually-more than the combined revenues of professional football, basketball, and baseball-visual, hard-core pornography is a central feature of American popular culture. It is time, Williams contends, for scholars to recognize this and give pornography a serious and extended analysis.
The essays in this volume move beyond feminist debates and distinctions between a "good" erotica and a "bad" hard core. Contributors examine varieties of pornography from the tradition of the soft-core pin-up through the contemporary hard-core tradition of straight, gay, and lesbian videos and dvds to the burgeoning phenomenon of pornography on the Internet. They explore, as examples of the genre, individual works as divergent as The Starr Report, the pirated Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson honeymoon video, and explicit Japanese "ladies' comics" consumed by women. They also probe difficult issues such as the sexualization of race and class and the relationship of pornography to the avant-garde. To take pornography seriously as an object of analysis also means teaching it. Porn Studies thus includes a useful annotated bibliography of readings and archival sources important to the study of pornography as a cultural form.
Contributors. Heather Butler, Rich Cante, Jake Gerli, Minette Hillyer, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Despina Kakoudaki, Franklin Melendez, Ara Osterweil, Zabet Patterson, Constance Penley, Angelo Restivo, Eric Schaefer, Michael Sicinski, Deborah Shamoon, Maria St. John, Tom Waugh, Linda Williams
Über den Autor

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric and Director of the Program in Film Studies and of the Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible”; and Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii

Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene: An Introduction / Linda Williams 1

Part I. Contemporary Pornographies

How to Do Things with the Starr Report: Pornography, Performance, and the President’s Penis / Maria St. John 27

Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored / Minette Hillyer 50

Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women / Deborah Shamoon 77

Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era / Zabet Patterson 104

Part 2. Gay, Lesbian, and Homosocial Pornographies

Homosociality i the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen / Thomas Waugh 127

The Cultural-Aesthetic Specificities of All-male Moving-Image Poronography / Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo 142

What Do You Call a Lesbian with Long Fingers? The Development of Lesbian and Dyke Pornography / Heather Butler 167

The Gay Sex Clerk: Chuck Vincent’s Straight Pornography / Jake Gerli 198

Part 3. Pornography, Race, and Class

The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star / Nguyen Tan Hoang 223

Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust / Linda Williams 271

Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn / Constance Penley 309

Part 4. Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime

Pinup: The American Secret Weapon in World War II / Despina Kakoudaki 335

Gauging a Revolution: 16 mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature / Eric Shaefer 370

Video Pornography, Visual Pleasure, and the Return of the Sublime / Franklin Melendez 401

Part 5. Pornography and/as Avant-Garde

Andy Warhol’s Blow Job: Toward a Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde / Ara Osterweil, 431

Unbracketing Motion Study: Scott Stark’s NOEMA / Michael Sicinski 461

Suggested Reading: An Annotated Bibliography 479

Pornographic Film and Video: A Select List of Archives and Commercial Sites 491

List of Contributors 495

Index 497
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 516
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822333128
ISBN-10: 0822333120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Williams, Linda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Linda Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2004
Gewicht: 0,756 kg
preigu-id: 102398998
Über den Autor

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric and Director of the Program in Film Studies and of the Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible”; and Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii

Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene: An Introduction / Linda Williams 1

Part I. Contemporary Pornographies

How to Do Things with the Starr Report: Pornography, Performance, and the President’s Penis / Maria St. John 27

Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored / Minette Hillyer 50

Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women / Deborah Shamoon 77

Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era / Zabet Patterson 104

Part 2. Gay, Lesbian, and Homosocial Pornographies

Homosociality i the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen / Thomas Waugh 127

The Cultural-Aesthetic Specificities of All-male Moving-Image Poronography / Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo 142

What Do You Call a Lesbian with Long Fingers? The Development of Lesbian and Dyke Pornography / Heather Butler 167

The Gay Sex Clerk: Chuck Vincent’s Straight Pornography / Jake Gerli 198

Part 3. Pornography, Race, and Class

The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star / Nguyen Tan Hoang 223

Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust / Linda Williams 271

Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn / Constance Penley 309

Part 4. Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime

Pinup: The American Secret Weapon in World War II / Despina Kakoudaki 335

Gauging a Revolution: 16 mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature / Eric Shaefer 370

Video Pornography, Visual Pleasure, and the Return of the Sublime / Franklin Melendez 401

Part 5. Pornography and/as Avant-Garde

Andy Warhol’s Blow Job: Toward a Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde / Ara Osterweil, 431

Unbracketing Motion Study: Scott Stark’s NOEMA / Michael Sicinski 461

Suggested Reading: An Annotated Bibliography 479

Pornographic Film and Video: A Select List of Archives and Commercial Sites 491

List of Contributors 495

Index 497
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 516
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822333128
ISBN-10: 0822333120
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Williams, Linda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Linda Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2004
Gewicht: 0,756 kg
preigu-id: 102398998
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