Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded EditionIn 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. |
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Contents
The Frenzy of the Visible | 34 |
Genital Show and Genital Event | 58 |
Marx Freud | 93 |
Number and Narrative | 120 |
Problems and Solutions | 153 |
Sadomasochistic | 184 |
A Desire | 229 |
Conclusion | 265 |
Epilogue | 280 |
Notes | 317 |
| 341 | |
| 355 | |
| 361 | |
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| Title | Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded Edition |
| Author | Linda Williams |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0520219430, 9780520219434 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film / General Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism Social Science / Gender Studies |
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