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9781845207045

Pornification Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture

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    9781845207045

  • ISBN10:

    1845207041

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-12-15
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

This international overview of how pornography--from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white--infiltrates and proliferates through various media. Porn is everywhere; from the suggestiveness of music videos to the explicit discussions of popular magazines; from the erotica of advertising to the refashioning of sex acts into art works; from a small garage industry to an internet empire. The media immerses us in the pornographic aesthetic. Now integral to popular culture, porn is part of our everyday lives. Sexual desire is commodified, pornified and the media leads the way. Exploring music videos, alt porn sites, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, H&M's street advertising, retro pin-ups, film and educational sex videos alike, Pornification analyses the transformation of porn in today's media and its impact on our culture.

Author Biography

Susanna Paasonen is research fellow at the Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse and co-editor of Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity. Kaarina Nikunen is Lecturer in Media Culture and Laura Saarenmaa is researcher in Media Culture, both at the University of Tampere.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgements Quote
Introduction
Labyrinth
Section Introduction
'The Intertwining - Chiasm'
'Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as seen by Western Orientalists'
'The Blind in the Early Christian World'
'Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages'
'The Light of Wangarr'
'Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand'
'On Longing: The Grotesque'
'Lifting the Veil: Shared Culture Values of Control'
'Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike.'
Orderings
Section Introduction
'Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment'
'Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Object'
'Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies'
'Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space'
'The Films of Fritz Lang'
'Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures'
'An Andean Cosmology'
'Witness of History: Student Photography and Reformasi Politics in Indonesia'
'The Naming of a Heroine'
Creating
Section Introduction
'Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship'
'Akira Postmodernism and Resistance'
'Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus'
'The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari'
'Quetzalcoatl's Mirror'
'Photography and the Sound of History'
'Sound Film - Worthy of the Name'
'Cinema and History: In Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour.'
'Madonna's Revenge"
"A Fascist Theme Park"
Ruptures
Section Introduction
'The Railway Journey - Panoramic Travel'
'The Secret of Gas'
'Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Placed'
'Camille Pissaro: The Unassuming Eye'
'The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette'
'Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan and Iconoclasm'
'The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso'
'Extraordinary Vision and Two Sides of Cloth'
'The Spiritual History of Ice'
Extensions
Section Introduction
'The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather'
'Basnjom and the Witches'
'The Cultural reception of Early Russian Cinema'
'Haptic Cinema'
'Chris Marker: Memories of the Future'
'What Do Pictures Want Now? Rural Consumers of Images in India'
'Surgical Vision and Digital Culture'
'In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena'
'Intimate Immensity'Final Quote
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Copyright acknowledgements
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