A collection of contemporary work on pornographic film and video, edited by one of the founders of the field.

In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and e

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore wha

The internet has made access to sexually explicit content radically more easy than ever before. This book is essential reading for those who are troubled by the

Develops a novel characterization of the pornographic as a cultural concept. This original contribution to porn studies aims to interrogate previously untheoriz