Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: critical voices in porn studies -- Feminism, pornography, transgression -- The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression -- Rethinking transgression -- Sex and disgust in popular culture -- Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex -- "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement -- Prurience and postmodernism -- Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity -- Pornography and the real -- Pornography and the appetite for authenticity -- Autobiography and/as the real -- Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect -- Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic -- Endnotes -- References -- Index. |
Abstract |
"Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2013006613 |
ISBN | 9781438449616 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9781438449609 (paperback : alk. paper) |