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Sex, society, and the making of pornography : the pornographic object of knowledge / Jeffrey Escoffier.
De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 Available online
De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Escoffier, Jeffrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Pornography--History.
- Pornography.
- Sex customs--History.
- Sex customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.) : 3 charts, 4 tables
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Hardcore pornographic films combine 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 Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. 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 constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 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 Porn’s Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity, and Everyday Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage
- Part 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
- Epilogue From the Secret Museum to the Digital Archives: Constructing the Sexual Imaginary
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-2018-6
- OCLC:
- 1237405942
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