Beyond explicit : pornography and the displacement of sex / Helen Hester.

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"Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hester, Helen, 1983-
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Pornography.
Pornography in popular culture.
Sex in popular culture.
Sex.
Popular culture.
Physical Description:vii, 234 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: critical voices in porn studies
  • Feminism, pornography, transgression
  • The sex wars : transgressive politics and the politics of transgression
  • Rethinking transgression
  • Sex and disgust in popular culture
  • Intensity and prurience : pornography after sex
  • "Not all of it will get your dick hard" : pornography and displacement
  • Prurience and postmodernism
  • Violence, sympathy, titillation : the body in a state of intensity
  • Pornography and the real
  • Pornography and the appetite for authenticity
  • Autobiography and/as the real
  • Sex, trauma, and the authenticity effect
  • Conclusion: pornographication and the explosion of the pornographic
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index.