Carnal resonance : affect and online pornography /

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Here, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Paasonen, Susanna, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, Ã2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
Subjects:
Internet pornography > Research.
Internet research.
Erotica
Internet
Pornographie sur Internet > Recherche.
Internet dans la recherche.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Internet research
Pornografie
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : carnal appeal
  • Bad taste, miasmic forces, and the ubiquity of online porn
  • Amateur wives and the attraction of authenticity
  • The literal and the hyperbolic : mapping the modalities of porn
  • Visual pleasures : from gaze to grab and resonance
  • Absolutely disgusting : shock sites, extremity, and the forbidden fruit
  • Conclusions : the tactile grab of online pornography.

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