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Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure, Sarah Schaschek

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Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure
Title
Pornography and seriality
Title remainder
the culture of producing pleasure
Statement of responsibility
Sarah Schaschek
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Pornography is repetitious to a degree that is hard to find anywhere else in audiovisual culture. Characters, acts, and shots reappear endlessly in films and online clips. Why is this highly predictable material arousing at all? And why are its formulas at the same time detested? This study approaches pornography by exploring its most obvious feature: seriality. Schaschek argues that porn's repetitive formulas are constitutive for the genre as such. She shows that understanding its serial strategies is an important step towards understanding the fascination and frustration that derive from pornography - as a gender system, an industry, and, ultimately, a source of pleasure
Cataloging source
DLC
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1983-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Schaschek, Sarah
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Pornographic films
  • Internet pornography
  • Repetition in motion pictures
  • Internet pornography
  • Pornographic films
  • Repetition in motion pictures
Label
Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure, Sarah Schaschek
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Seductive seriality: the genre of pornography and its affective structure. Genre trouble: taxonomic pleasure and pain in YouPorn -- How to feel a genre: structured affect in sexual episodes -- Sex machines or the fantasy of bodily efficiency. Sausage factories: the optimized production of pleasure -- Pornographic biopower: discipline and gender on the Internet -- Digital desire: futuristic pleasure in Shu Lea Cheang's I.K.U. -- The state of open being: polyamorous films and the female porn star -- A provoking agent: the porn life of Dana Dearmond -- Polyamorous films: anonymous intimacy in documentary adult films -- A thousand little deaths: episodes and "traumatized narratives" -- Let's talk about death: pornographic endings from Sade to sex blogging -- Beautiful agony: loss of time and space in the close-up -- Nostalgia: strategies of imitation in queer pornography -- Behind the queer door: porno revolution or reaffirmation? -- Remaking the golden age: queer visions of the past in nostalgia -- Squirting glitter: seriality raised to a higher power
Control code
846912135
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xii, 219 pages
Isbn
9781137363121
Lccn
2013020111
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
System control number
(OCoLC)846912135
Label
Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure, Sarah Schaschek
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Seductive seriality: the genre of pornography and its affective structure. Genre trouble: taxonomic pleasure and pain in YouPorn -- How to feel a genre: structured affect in sexual episodes -- Sex machines or the fantasy of bodily efficiency. Sausage factories: the optimized production of pleasure -- Pornographic biopower: discipline and gender on the Internet -- Digital desire: futuristic pleasure in Shu Lea Cheang's I.K.U. -- The state of open being: polyamorous films and the female porn star -- A provoking agent: the porn life of Dana Dearmond -- Polyamorous films: anonymous intimacy in documentary adult films -- A thousand little deaths: episodes and "traumatized narratives" -- Let's talk about death: pornographic endings from Sade to sex blogging -- Beautiful agony: loss of time and space in the close-up -- Nostalgia: strategies of imitation in queer pornography -- Behind the queer door: porno revolution or reaffirmation? -- Remaking the golden age: queer visions of the past in nostalgia -- Squirting glitter: seriality raised to a higher power
Control code
846912135
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
xii, 219 pages
Isbn
9781137363121
Lccn
2013020111
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
System control number
(OCoLC)846912135

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