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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459901803321

Titolo

Everyday pornography / / edited by Karen Boyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-94210-6

1-282-78156-1

9786612781568

0-203-84755-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyleKaren <1972->

Disciplina

363.4/7

Soggetti

Pornography - Social aspects

Sex in mass media

Pornography in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Everyday pornography; Part I: Content and context; Chapter 1: Arresting images: Anti-pornography slide shows, activism and the academy; Chapter 2: Methodological considerations in mapping pornography content; Chapter 3: 'Now, that's pornography!': Violence and domination in Adult Video News; Chapter 4: Repetition and hyperbole: The gendered choreographies of heteroporn; Chapter 5: Cocktail parties: Fetishizing semen in pornography beyond bukkake

Chapter 6: Virtually commercial sexPart II: Address, consumption, regulation; Chapter 7: Pornography is what the end of the world looks like; Chapter 8: From Jekyll to Hyde: The grooming of male pornography consumers; Chapter 9: Porn consumers' public faces: Mainstream media, address and representation; Chapter 10: To catch a curious clicker: A social network analysis of the online pornography industry; Chapter 11: Young men using pornography; Chapter 12: 'Students study hard porn': Pornography and the popular press

Chapter 13: Marginalizing feminism?: Debating extreme pornography



laws in public and policy discourseEpilogue: How was it for you?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Public and academic debate about 'porn culture' is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography's mainstream - contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience - Everyday Pornography offers the opportunity to reconsider what it is that makes pornography a specific form of industrial practice and genre of representation. Everyday Pornography presents original work from scholars from a range of academic disciplines (Media Studies, Law, Sociology, Psyc