TY - BOOK ID - 8729536 TI - Hard core : power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible" PY - 1989 SN - 0520066529 9780520066526 0520066537 9780520066533 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Pornographic films KW - Pornography. KW - Sex in motion pictures. KW - History and criticism. KW - Sex in motion pictures KW - Pornography KW - CDL KW - 791.43 WILLIAMS KW - Erotica KW - Sex in moving-pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Erotic films KW - Literature, Immoral KW - Porn KW - Porno KW - Sex-oriented businesses KW - Eroticism KW - History and criticism KW - Sexology KW - Film KW - Sex industry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8729536 AB - 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. However, analysis of its forms (including its spectacular "money shots" and sexual "numbers" parallel to those in musicals) reveals that sex in the sense of a natural, visible "doing what comes naturally" is in fact the supreme and deeply contradictory fiction of the genre. Gender, the social construction of the relation between the sexes, is what determines this fiction. ER -