In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and doesas a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition, Williams has written a new preface and a new epilogue, On/scenities, illustrated with 25 photographs. She has also added a supplementary bibliography.
Linda Williamsis Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author ofFigures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film(California, 1981) and editor ofViewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film(1995).
Preface
Foreword
1. Speaking Sex: "The Indiscreet Jewels"
2. Prehistory: The "Frenzy of the Visible"
3. The Stag Film: Genital Show and Genital Event
4. Fetishism and Hard Core: Marx, Freud,
and the "Money Shot"
5. Generic Pleasures: Number and Narrative
6. Hard-Core Utopias: Problems and Solutions
7. Power, Pleasure, and Perversion: Sadomasochistic
Film Pornography
8. Sequels and Re-Visions: "A Desire of
One's Own "
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Supplementary Bibliography
Index
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