Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition

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 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.