Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure / Sarah Schaschek.
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 approach...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137359384 1137359382 1306286255 9781306286251 9781349472864 1349472867 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |