Porn studies

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Porn studies

edited by Linda Williams

Duke University Press, 2004

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-490) and index

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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

Table of Contents

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

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