"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…
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 former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother-turned to selling goods on the black market. Beate Uhse became the world's largest erotica entrepreneur. Battling restrictive legislation, powerful ch…
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…
In 2004, artist Zak Smith blew away New York's art world at the Whitney Biennial with his visual interpretation of Gravity's Rainbow, a wall-size installation consisting of over 750 illustrations of Thomas Pynchon's famous novel. Five years later, Smith brings us We Did Porn, a …
Follows Zak Smith (or Zak Sabbath) from the New York art scene to Los Angeles's seedy, yet colorful, underbell--the world of alt porn. Smith narrates his own foray into pornography and gives his readers a new understanding of the industry, its players, and its audience. Blends m…
Art and pornography: philosophical essays
Art and pornography: philosophical essays
This book presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornograph…
