Hard core power, pleasure, and the "fr enzy of the visible" - Williams, Linda, 1946-; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999)
Speaking sex : "the indiscreet jewels" -- Prehistory : the "frenzy o f the visible" -- The stag film : genital show and genital event -- Fet ishism and hard core : Marx, Freud, and the "money shot" -- Generic ple asures : number and narrative -- Hard-core utopias : problems and solut ions -- Power, pleasure, and perversion : sadomasochistic film pornogra phy -- Sequels and re-visions : "a desire of one's own."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-359) and index.
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Keywords: Sex in motion pictures; Erotic films -- History and criticism; Pornographic films -- History and criticism; Pornography