Hard Core : Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition

Linda Williams
University of California Press
9780520219434
0-520-21943-0

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and doesas a genre with a history, as a specific.

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cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition, Williams has written a new preface and a new epilogue, "On/scenities," illustrated with 25 photographs. She has also added a supplementary bibliography.