Hard to swallow : hard-core pornography on screen / edited by Claire Hines & Darren Kerr ; contributors, Feona Attwood and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attwood, Feona, author.

Contributor:

Hines, Claire, editor.

Kerr, Darren, editor.

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornographic films.

Pornography--Social aspects.

Pornography.

Sex in motion pictures.

Mass media and sex.

Sex in mass media.

Gay erotic films.

Sex (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2012]

Summary:

"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."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Part 1 Turned on: Hard-core Screen Cultures

1 Pornography in the Multiplex / Brian McNair McNair, Brian 11

2 The Dark Side of Hard-core: Critical Documentaries on the Sex Industry / Karen Boyle Boyle, Karen 27

3 Art School Sluts: Authenticity and the Aesthetics of Altporn / Feona Attwood Attwood, Feona 42

4 Pornogogy: Teaching the Titillating / Mark Jones Jones, Mark, Gerry Carlin Carlin, Gerry 57

Part 2 Come Again? Hard-core in History

5 'White Slavery', Or the Ethnography of 'Sexworkers': Women in Stag Films at the Kinsey Archive / Linda Williams Williams, Linda 81

6 Lost in Damnation: The Progressive Potential of Behind the Green Door / Darren Ken Ken, Darren 101

7 The Limits of Pleasure? Max Hardcore and Extreme Porn / Stephen Maddison Maddison, Stephen 113

8 Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-core / Claire Hines Hines, Claire 126

Part 3 Fluid Exchanges: Hard-core Forms and Aesthetics

9 Fashionably Laid: The Styling of Hard-core? / Pamela Church Gibson Gibson, Pamela Church, Neil Kirkham Kirkham, Neil 147

10 Shortbus: Highbrow Hard-core / Beth Johnson Johnson, Beth 163

11 Homespun: Finnporn and the Meanings of the Local / Susanna Paasonen Paasonen, Susanna 177

12 Reel Intercourse: Doing Sex on Camera / Clarissa Smith Smith, Clarissa 194

13 Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video / John Mercer Mercer, John 215

14 Interrogating Lesbian Pornography: Gender, Sexual Iconography and Spectatorship / Rebecca Beirne Beirne, Rebecca 229.

Notes:

"A Wallflower book published by Columbia University Press"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: page 244-246.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

9780231162104

0231162103

9780231162135

0231162138

OCLC:

775411248