Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition / Edition 1

by Linda Williams
ISBN-10:
0520219430
ISBN-13:
9780520219434
Pub. Date:
04/27/1999
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520219430
ISBN-13:
9780520219434
Pub. Date:
04/27/1999
Publisher:
University of California Press
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition / Edition 1

by Linda Williams

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520219434
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 04/27/1999
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 398
Sales rank: 558,562
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film (California, 1981) and editor of Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (1995).

Table of Contents

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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