Alice in Pornoland

Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic

Ajouter à ma liste

de Laura Helen Marks

Type

Studies

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

censorship, sexuality, gothic

Année d'édition

2018

Editeur

University of Illinois Press

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 232 pages
6 x 8 ¾ inches (15 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-252-08385-3

Appréciation

(0 vote)

X

Moyenne des votes :

0	vote	= On peut s'en passer
0	vote	= Bon livre
0	vote	= Excellent livre
0	vote	= Unique / une référence

Votre vote : -

Description de l'ouvrage:
Victorian repression, sexual expression, porn obsession

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways.
Laura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies. In turn, she exposes what porning the Victorians shows us about pornography as a genre.
A bold foray into theory and other forbidden places, Alice in Pornoland reveals how modern-day Victorian Gothic pornography constantly emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates issues of gender, sexuality, and race.

À propos de l'auteur :
Laura Helen Marks is a professor of practice in the Department of English at Tulane University.

Revue de Presse:
"Through its in-depth investigation of the dialogue between the porn industry and the world of our supposedly 'prudish' forefathers, Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic represents an important contribution to the analysis of a cinematic genre (neo-Victorian porn) that has been partially neglected in scholarly works." --Neo-Victorian Studies

"The sign of a great nonfiction work is ending up in deep rabbit holes and exploring the references and footnotes in it. Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic by Laura Helen Marks is an amazing buffet of rabbit holes: erotica theory, media studies, histories (both well-known and generally invisibilized), queer theory, sociology, pleasure activism, and literary scholarship are all here." --Positive Sexuality

Voir le site internet de l'éditeur University of Illinois Press