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Pornography and seriality : the culture of producing pleasure / Sarah Schaschek.

By: Schaschek, Sarah [Author.].
Publisher: Newyork : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Edition: First edition.Description: xii, 219p.ISBN: 9781137363121 (alk. paper); 1137363126 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Pornographic films -- History and criticism | Internet pornography | Repetition in motion picturesDDC classification: 791.436538
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.
Summary: Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek questions the dominant assumptions about pornography and the stability of the genre.
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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.

Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion, Schaschek questions the dominant assumptions about pornography and the stability of the genre.

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