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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible, Expanded Edition
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Apr 27th, 1999
- Pages: 398
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 1.00in - 1.41lb
- EAN: 9780520219434
- Categories: • Film - History & Criticism• Pornography• Gender Studies
About the Author
Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film (California, 1981) and editor of Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (1995).
Praise for this book
""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