Dean / Ruszczycky / Squires Porn Archives

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7662-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 514 Seiten

Porn Archives explores how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts, and shows that porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the production of pleasure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Tim

Ruszczycky, Steven

Squires, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Pornography, Technology, Archive / Tim Dean 1

Part I. Pedagogical Archives

1. Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field / Linda Williams 29

2. Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson 44

3. The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others / Nguyen Tan Hoang 61

4. Pornography in the Library / David Squires 78

Part II. Historical Archives

5. "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places / Jennifer Burns Bright and Ronan Crowley 103

6. Up from Underground / Loren Glass 127

7. "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus / Joseph Bristow 144

Part III. Image Archives

8. Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action / Robert L. Caserio 163

9. Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics / Darieck Scott 183

10. Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive / Robert Dewhurst 213

11. This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston / Mireille Miller-Young 234

Part IV. Rough Archives

12. Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive / Lisa Downing 249

13. Rough Sex / Eugenie Brinkema 262

14. "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity / Marcia Klotz 284

Part V. Transnational Archives

15. Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo 303

16. Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A B. Profunda / Melissa Schindler 317

17. Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation / John Paul Ricco 338

18. Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography / Prabha Manuratne 356

Part VI. Archives of Excess

19. Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire / Harri Kalha 375

20. Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography / Steven Ruszczycky 399

21. Stumped / Tim Dean 420

Appendix. Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections / Caitlin Shanley 441

Filmography 457

Bibliography 459

Notes on Contributors 481

Index 485

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Dean is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, where he is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality.

Steven Ruszczycky recently completed a PhD in English at the University at Buffalo, where David Squires is a PhD candidate in English.