Hard Core

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.

ISBN	0520219430	Pages	398
ISBN13	9780520219434 (What's this?)	Part volume	Expanded edition
Publisher	University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton	Volumes	1
Imprint	University of California Press	Weight (grammes)	542
Format	Paperback	Published in	CA
Publication date	27 Apr 1999	Previous ISBN	9780520066533
Non-book description	xviii, 380 p. :	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	98-38977	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	791.436538	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	General

	Preface
	Foreword
1	Speaking Sex: "The Indiscreet Jewels"	1
2	Prehistory: The "Frenzy of the Visible"	34
3	The Stag Film: Genital Show and Genital Event	58
4	Fetishism and Hard Core: Marx, Freud, and the "Money Shot"	93
5	Generic Pleasures: Number and Narrative	120
6	Hard-Core Utopias: Problems and Solutions	153
7	Power, Pleasure, and Perversion: Sadomasochistic Film Pornography	184
8	Sequels and Re-Visions: "A Desire of One's Own"	229
	Conclusion	265
	Epilogue	280
	Notes	317
	Works Cited	341
	Supplementary Bibliography	355
	Index	361

""Hard Core is a brilliant demolition of the position that pornography represents one thing only. Arguing against the feminist case for censorship, Williams urges that we take pornography seriously, which does not mean that we like it, or that we believe it is art."--Alan Wolfe, "The New Republic

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