Hard Core
Subtitle: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 14, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780520066533
Subjects: Films, cinema; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Pornography; Film - History & Criticism; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Sex in motion pictures; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film - General; Performing Arts / General; Erotic films; History and criticism
First sentence: Toward the beginning of Denis Diderot's 1748 fable Les bijoux indiscrets (The Indiscreet Jewels), the genie Cucufa seeks to gratify the desire of the sultan Mangogul to have the women of his court speak frankly of their sexual adventures.