Hard core
Subtitle: power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible"
By: Linda Williams.
Edition: Expanded pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Sex in motion pictures; Erotic films -- History and criticism; Pornography
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 26 photographs, and has added a supplementary bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-359) and index.