Hard to Swallow
Hard-Core Pornography on Screen
1st Edition
Published on 3. April 2012
244 pages
978-0-231-85015-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is co-author of Fantasy (with Jacqueline Furby, 2011) and her research and publications focus on James Bond, men's magazines, and representations of gender and sexuality on screen. Darren Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. He is co-editor of Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities (with Donna Peberdy, 2012) and his research and publications focus on adaptation, pornography, and short films.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Is Hard-core Hard to Swallow?
- Part 1. Turned On: Hard-core Screen Cultures
- 1. Pornography in the Multiplex
- 2. The Dark Side of Hard-core: Critical Documentaries on the Sex Industry
- 3. Art School Sluts: Authenticity and the Aesthetics of Altporn
- 4. Pornogogy: Teaching the Titillating
- Part 2. Come Again? Hard-core in History
- 5. 'White Slavery', Or the Ethnography of 'Sexworkers': Women in Stag Films at the Kinsey Archive
- 6. Lost in Damnation: The Progressive Potential of Behind the Green Door
- 7. The Limits of Pleasure? Max Hardcore and Extreme Porn
- 8. Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-core
- Part 3. Fluid Exchanges: Hard-core Forms and Aesthetics
- 9. Fashionably Laid: The Styling of Hard-core
- 10. Shortbus: Highbrow Hard-core
- 11. Homespun: Finnporn and the Meanings of the Local
- 12. Reel Intercourse: Doing Sex on Camera
- 13. Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video
- 14. Interrogating Lesbian Pornography: Gender, Sexual Iconography and Spectatorship
- Selected filmography
- Index
