Porn Archives:

While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archi...

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Other Authors: Caitlin, Shanley (Contributor), Darieck, Scott (Contributor), David, Squires (Contributor), Dean, Tim (Editor), Eugenie, Brinkema (Contributor), Harri, Kalha (Contributor), Jennifer, Burns Bright (Contributor), John Paul, Ricco (Contributor), Joseph, Bristow (Contributor), Linda, Williams (Contributor), Lisa, Downing (Contributor), Loren, Glass (Contributor), Marcia, Klotz (Contributor), Melissa, Schindler (Contributor), Mireille, Miller-Young (Contributor), Nguyen Tan, Hoang (Contributor), Prabha, Manuratne (Contributor), Ramón E., Soto-Crespo (Contributor), Robert L., Caserio (Contributor), Robert, Dewhurst (Contributor), Ronan, Crowley (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press [2015]
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Summary:While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography-as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category-is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating access to sexually explicit material, archives have helped constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result, porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the production of pleasure.The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics range from library policies governing access to sexually explicit material to the growing digital archive of "war porn," or eroticized combat imagery; and from same-sex amputee porn to gay black comic book superhero porn. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders, transforms technologies, consolidates sexual identities, and challenges notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection concludes with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography archives held by institutions around the world.Contributors. Jennifer Burns Bright, Eugenie Brinkema, Joseph Bristow, Robert Caserio, Ronan Crowley, Tim Dean, Robert Dewhurst, Lisa Downing, Frances Ferguson, Loren Glass, Harri Kahla, Marcia Klotz, Prabha Manuratne, Mireille Miller-Young, Nguyen Tan Hoang, John Paul Ricco, Steven Ruszczycky, Melissa Schindler, Darieck Scott, Caitlin Shanley, Ramon Soto-Crespo, David Squires, Linda Williams
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (514 pages) 31 illustrations
ISBN:9780822376620
DOI:10.1515/9780822376620

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