Acknowledgments vii
Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene: An Introduction / Linda
Williams 1
Part I. Contemporary Pornographies
How to Do Things with the Starr Report: Pornography, Performance, and the
President’s Penis / Maria St. John 27
Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of
Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored / Minette Hillyer 50
Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic
Comics for Women / Deborah Shamoon 77
Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era / Zabet Patterson
104
Part 2. Gay, Lesbian, and Homosocial Pornographies
Homosociality i the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen /
Thomas Waugh 127
The Cultural-Aesthetic Specificities of All-male Moving-Image Poronography
/ Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo 142
What Do You Call a Lesbian with Long Fingers? The Development of Lesbian
and Dyke Pornography / Heather Butler 167
The Gay Sex Clerk: Chuck Vincent’s Straight Pornography / Jake Gerli 198
Part 3. Pornography, Race, and Class
The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn
Star / Nguyen Tan Hoang 223
Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and
Interracial Lust / Linda Williams 271
Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn / Constance Penley 309
Part 4. Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime
Pinup: The American Secret Weapon in World War II / Despina Kakoudaki 335
Gauging a Revolution: 16 mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature /
Eric Shaefer 370
Video Pornography, Visual Pleasure, and the Return of the Sublime /
Franklin Melendez 401
Part 5. Pornography and/as Avant-Garde
Andy Warhol’s Blow Job: Toward a Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde
/ Ara Osterweil, 431
Unbracketing Motion Study: Scott Stark’s NOEMA / Michael Sicinski 461
Suggested Reading: An Annotated Bibliography 479
Pornographic Film and Video: A Select List of Archives and Commercial Sites
491
List of Contributors 495
Index 497
