"Through changes in archival and industrial practices, the very pastness of vintage pornographic cinema becomes a source of both eroticism and cultural conflict"--
In the mid-1970s, American feminists formed grassroots organizations to protest the proliferation of advertisements, films, and other popular media that glorified sexual violence against women. They pioneered feminist analyses of these images, which were thought to promote sexis…
Snuff: real death and screen media
Snuff: real death and screen media
"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 does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality." "For…
"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 does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For th…
Verlagsinfo: "ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY collects essays that both develop and critique the concept that gives the book its name. Ethnopornography, a term first coined by British anthropologist Walter Roth in the late nineteenth century, refers to the often eroticized observation - for su…
"ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY collects essays that both develop and critique the concept that gives the book its name. Ethnopornography, a term first coined by British anthropologist Walter Roth in the late nineteenth century, refers to the often eroticized observation--for supposedly scien…
Overview: Struggling to survive in post-World War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001)-a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother-turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started Uhse on her path to bec…
Struggling to survive in post-World War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001)a a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother, turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started Uhse on her path to becoming th…
Overview: Struggling to survive in post-World War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001)-a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother-turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started Uhse on her path to bec…
Although erotica has always existed, "pornography" is a recent phenomenon: as late as the eighteenth century the word did not exist. From the secret museums to the pornography trials of Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterly's Lover, to Mapplethorpe, cable TV, and the Internet, Walter…
