Hard Core

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 25 photographs. She has also added a supplementary bibliography.

Preface
Foreword

1. Speaking Sex: "The Indiscreet Jewels"
2. Prehistory: The "Frenzy of the Visible"
3. The Stag Film: Genital Show and Genital Event
4. Fetishism and Hard Core: Marx Freud,
and the "Money Shot"
5. Generic Pleasures: Number and Narrative
6. Hard-Core Utopias: Problems and Solutions
7. Power Pleasure and Perversion: Sadomasochistic
Film Pornography
8. Sequels and Re-Visions: "A Desire of
One's Own "

Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Supplementary Bibliography
Index