Sex, society, and the making of pornography : the pornographic object of knowledge / Jeffrey Escoffier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escoffier, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--History.

Sex customs.

History.

Sex in motion pictures.

Pornography--History.

Pornography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"As Laura Kipnis proclaimed, "Pornography is the royal road to the cultural psyche (as for Freud, dreams were the route to the unconscious)." This book explores that claim. Hardcore pornographic films have combined fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. And this book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitute, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both as a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pornography and the History of Sexuality

1. Pornography, Perversity, and Sexual Revolution

2. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and Sexual Revolution

3. Sex in the Seventies: Gay Porn Cinema as an Archive for the History of Sexuality

4. Pom's Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity, and Everyday Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage

pt. II Producing Sex: Sexual Scripts, Work, and the Making of Pornography

5. Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative, and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films

6. Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography

7. The Wages for Wood: Do Female Performers in the Adult Film Industry Earn More Than Male Performers?

8. Porn Star / Stripper / Escort: Economic and Sexual Dynamics in a Sex Work Career

9. Trans Porn, Heterosexuality, and Sexual Identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978820142

1978820143

9781978820159

1978820151

OCLC:

1155482570

Publisher Number:

99986763389