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Hard core

Linda Williams

1989330 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1989
first published
  • 1989University of California Press · 330 pages · ENGISBN 9780520066526
  • 1991Pandora · 330 pages · ENGISBN 9780044408444
  • 1999University of California Press · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9780520219434

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 does - as 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 26 photographs, and has added a supplementary bibliography.

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