HARD TO SWALLOW
HARD TO SWALLOW
Hard-core Pornography on Screen
edited by
Claire Hines & Darren Kerr
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CONTENTS
Claire Hines and Darren Kerr
Brian McNair
Karen Boyle
Feona Attwood
Mark Jones and Gerry Carlin
Linda Williams
Darren Kerr
Stephen Maddison
Claire Hines
Pamela Church Gibson and Neil Kirkham
Beth Johnson
Susanna Paasonen
Clarissa Smith
John Mercer
Rebecca Beirne
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the Faculty of the Creative Industries and Society and our colleagues, past and present, at Southampton Solent University for their support throughout the writing of this book. In particular we would like to thank Jacqueline Furby, David Lusted, Karen Randell, Steven Peacock, Donna Peberdy, Tony Steyger, Mark Aldridge and Mark de Valk for their generosity, suggestions, sense of humour and sometimes just for listening. To this list we must add Scott Anderson and Robin Jones for putting up with our endless porn-talk in JM227. We would also like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the enthusiasm and commitment of the Sex on Screen students and especially Dr Wendy Leeks for supporting the course. Thanks also to Yoram Allon and Jodie Taylor at Wallflower Press for their cooperation and assistance throughout the project.
Finally, special thanks to our respective family and friends for their encouragement, confidence and patience in our work, especially Jackie and Sue.
This book is dedicated to Jason and Stephen.
And to J.
Feona Attwood is Professor of Sex, Communication and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the editor of Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture (2009) and porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography (2010), and the co-editor of journal special issues on Controversial Images (in Popular Communication, 2009), Researching and Teaching Sexually Explicit Media (in Sexualities, 2009), and Investigating Young Peoples Sexual Cultures (in Sex Education, 2011).
Rebecca Beirne is Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published journal articles and book chapters on queer representation in popular culture, and is a founding executive member of PopCAANZ: the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. She is the author of Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium (2008), the editor of Televising Queer Women (2008) and co-editor of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand (2012).
Karen Boyle is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Media Violence: Gendering the Debates (2005) and editor of Everyday Pornography (2010) and has published articles on related issues in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Womens Studies International Forum and the New Review of Film and Television Studies.
Gerry Carlin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published articles on British Modernism and critical theory, and is currently researching 1960s culture.
Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of the Arts, London, UK. She has published extensively on film, fashion, fandom, gender and heritage and is the author of Fashion and Celebrity Culture (2011) and the editor or co-editor of four anthologies, including The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998) and More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power (2004).
Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. Her research and publications focus on sexuality, gender, fantasy and 007. She is the co-author of Fantasy (2011) and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between James Bond and Playboy.
Beth Johnson is Lecturer in Film and Visual Theory at Keele University, UK. Her recent publications include work on masochism, perversion, real sex and experimental film. She has just completed a book about the works of television auteur Paul Abbott (2012) and is the co-editor of Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations (2012).
Mark Jones is Senior Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published articles on science fiction, horror and popular music. He is currently researching 1960s exploitation fiction and film.
Darren Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University, UK. He has published articles on screen violence, adaptation and sex on screen. He is currently researching contemporary British horror across film and television and is co-editing a forthcoming collection entitled Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities.
Neil Kirkham is Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of the Arts, London, UK. He has recently completed his PhD, entitled Simple Pornographers? The Marquis de Sade and the Evolution of the Hard-Core Pornographic Film Narrative, and is preparing a series of journal articles based on his doctoral research.
Stephen Maddison is Principal Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London and co-runs the website opengender.org.uk. He is the author of