...Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime ...

...Preface<subtitle>Confessions of a Black Feminist Academic Pornographer</subtitle> ...

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...” aesthetic beauty. Here, and in its other iterations as a complaint, the pornographic is a judgment in error and the estrangement of the human from others, from history. But the complaint can help us be more attentive to how we become attached to certain perceptual practices in the appraisal of beauty...

... racial stratification of the industry, and platforms that regularly prohibit, flag, and remove content. Through a combination of archival review, legal review, qualitative interviews, and “auto-pornographic ethnography,” this book explores the strategies indie porn producers deploy for visibility...

... of sexualized substances that supposedly accompanied Mau Mau oathing rituals and the pornographic consumption of oathing mythologies, the set of narratives about the oaths produced and consumed by white audiences. As Mau Mau rebels demanded the right to consume the resources of the colony, oathing mythologies...

... that policing and repression and legal definitions of what were or were not acceptable pornographic images would lead feminism away from its earlier calls for liberation and experimentation and towards a feminism that saw men as by definition violent and women as needing to be protected by the (then very...

... heteronormative, able-bodied, cis-centric configurations of intimacy. Such approaches involve confiscating and destroying pornographic artifacts and preventing the production of content that could actually disrupt normative sexual scripts. Performers critique regulatory frameworks as out of touch, misdiagnosing...

... This chapter explores the pornographic logic of the tourist imaginary and the reformulation of transnational intimacy in Korea and Japan’s cinema of postcolonial reconciliation under new cultural liberalization policies from 1998 to 2002. It focuses on the joint film productions Kazoku Cinema...

... of formal codified workplace health and safety (WHS) standards or industrial protections, indie pornographers are creating their own blueprints, pioneering and role-modeling ethical processes from recruitment through to production, marketing, and distribution. These ethics go far beyond the WHS concerns...

...Intimacy This chapter explores the pornographic logic of the tourist imaginary and the reformulation of transnational intimacy in Korea and Japan’s cinema of postcolonial reconciliation under new cultural liberalization policies from 1998 to 2002. It focuses on the joint film productions...

... and processes for best-practice ethics on intimate sets. In the absence of formal codified workplace health and safety (WHS) standards or industrial protections, indie pornographers are creating their own blueprints, pioneering and role-modeling ethical processes from recruitment through to production...