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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible"

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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" - Williams, Linda
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In this unprecedented and brilliant study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of anti-porn/anti-censorship position-taking 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. Working against tendencies to oversimplify hard core--either as pure abusive power or pure liberatory pleasure--Williams sees the form as inherently contradictory. Hard core claims to speak confessional and involuntary "truths" of sex. ...

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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" 1990, Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List, London

ISBN-13: 9780044408444

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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible 1989, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

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