Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen

by Claire Hines (Editor), Darren Kerr (Editor)

Overview

Even in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still hard to swallow. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and critical contexts. Contributions cover a wide range of topics from sex in the multiplex to online alt-porn, from women in stag films to the excesses of extreme pornography, and a variety of contemporary case studies including porn performance, fashion in hard-core, and gay and lesbian pornography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231850155
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. She is co-author of Fantasy (with Jacqueline Furby, 2011) and her research and publications focus on James Bond, men’s magazines, and representations of gender and sexuality on screen. Darren Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. He is co-editor of Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities (with Donna Peberdy, 2012) and his research and publications focus on adaptation, pornography, and short films.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Is Hard-core Hard to Swallow? Claire Hines Darren Ken 1

Part 1 Turned on: Hard-core Screen Cultures

1 Pornography in the Multiplex Brian McNair 11

2 The Dark Side of Hard-core: Critical Documentaries on the Sex Industry Karen Boyle 27

3 Art School Sluts: Authenticity and the Aesthetics of Altporn Feona Attwood 42

4 Pornogogy: Teaching the Titillating Mark Jones Gerry Carlin 57

Part 2 Come Again? Hard-core in History

5 'White Slavery', Or the Ethnography of 'Sexworkers': Women in Stag Films at the Kinsey Archive Linda Williams 81

6 Lost in Damnation: The Progressive Potential of Behind the Green Door Darren Ken 101

7 The Limits of Pleasure? Max Hardcore and Extreme Porn Stephen Maddison 113

8 Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-core Claire Hines 126

Part 3 Fluid Exchanges: Hard-core Forms and Aesthetics

9 Fashionably Laid: The Styling of Hard-core? Pamela Church Gibson Neil Kirkham 147

10 Shortbus: Highbrow Hard-core Beth Johnson 163

11 Homespun: Finnporn and the Meanings of the Local Susanna Paasonen 177

12 Reel Intercourse: Doing Sex on Camera Clarissa Smith 194

13 Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video John Mercer 215

14 Interrogating Lesbian Pornography: Gender, Sexual Iconography and Spectatorship Rebecca Beirne 229

Selected filmography 244

Index 247

Editorial Reviews

The book is rich of information.

Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics, Vol 4/2016 - Thierry Leterre

An excellent snapshot of porn studies as they are today and provides an insight into the range and quality of critical engagement with hardcore pornography in the industry, in the academy, and beyond.

New Review of Film and Television Studies - Laura Ellen Joyce