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Carnal resonance : affect and online pornography / Susanna Paasonen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paasonen, Susanna, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet pornography--Research.
- Internet pornography.
- Internet research.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Here, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Carnal Appeal 1
- 2 Bad Taste, Miasmic Forces, and the Ubiquity of Online Porn 31
- 3 Amateur Wives and the Attraction of Authenticity 71
- 4 The Literal and the Hyperbolic: Mapping the Modalities of Online Porn 115
- 5 Visual Pleasures: From Gaze to Grab and Resonance 165
- 6 Absolutely Disgusting: Shock Sites, Extremity, and the Forbidden Fruit 207
- 7 Conclusions: The Tactile Grab of Online Pornography 251.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0262298813
- 9780262298810
- 1283321769
- 9781283321761
- OCLC:
- 760056422
- Publisher Number:
- ebr10509215
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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