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

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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 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.