Jeffrey Escoffier

Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. This book explores how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978820159
• ISBN-10: 1978820151
• Artikelnr.: 68486293

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY ESCOFFIER writes on the history of sexuality, pornography, and LGBTQ issues. He is a research associate at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Pornography and the History of Sexuality
Chapter One - Pornography, Perversity and Sexual Revolution
Chapter Two - Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and Sexual Revolution
Chapter Three - Sex in the Seventies: Gay Porn Cinema as an Archive for the
History of Sexuality
Chapter Four - Porn's Historical Unconscious: Sex, Identity and Everyday
Life in the Films of Jack Deveau and Joe Gage
Part II: Producing Sex: Sexual Scripts, Work and the Making of Pornography
Chapter Five - Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in
Pornographic Films
Chapter Six - Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography
Chapter Seven - The Wages for Wood: Do Female Performers in the Adult Film
Industry Earn More than Male Performers
Chapter Eight - Porn Star/Stripper/Escort: Economic and Sexual Dynamics in
a Sex Work Career
Chapter Nine - Trans Porn, Heterosexuality and Sexual Identity
Epilogue: From the Secret Museum to the Digital Archives: Constructing the
Sexual Imaginary
Acknowledgements
About the Author