num_pages: 380
description: 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.
language: English
title: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
titlecomplete: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
genres: History, Sociology, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Theory, Sexuality, Academic, Nonfiction, Feminism, Film
ratings_count: 239
publisher: University of California Press