Hard Core

Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition

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by Linda Williams

Type: Essays
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Keywords: pornographic films
Publishing date: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 398 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-520-21943-0
978-0-520-21943-4

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Book Presentation:
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.

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).

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