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 +"[[Pornography]] is the royal road to the [[Cultural psychology |cultural psyche]]." --''[[Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America|Bound And Gagged]]'' (1996) [[Laura Kipnis]]
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 +'''Academic study of pornography''' concerns the study of [[pornography]] in accordance with the [[scientific method]].
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 +It became popular in [[American academia]] in the [[late 20th century]]. [[James Atlas]] was one of the first to point out the trend in a 1999 article on the subject, which included an interview with [[Linda Williams (film scholar)|Linda Williams]], who is known for an early study in this field, ''[[Hard Core: Power, Pleasure]]'' (1989).
 +==List of researchers and publications==
-Parent: [[American academia]]+* "[[Pornography and Obscenity]]" (1929) by D. H. Lawrence
 +* ''[[The Nude]]'' (1956) by Kenneth Clark
 +* ''[[The Other Victorians]]'' (1964) by Steven Marcus
 +* "[[The Pornographic Imagination]]” (1967) by Susan Sontag
 +* ''[[The Longford Report]]'' (1972) by various
 +* ''[[Ways of Seeing]]'' (1972) by John Berger
 +* ''[[Against Our Will]]'' (1975) by Susan Brownmiller
 +* ''[[The Erotic Arts]]'' (1975) by Peter Webb
 +*''[[Hard Core: Power, Pleasure]]'' (1989) by Linda Williams
 +*''[[Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America]]'' (1996) by Laura Kipnis
 +*''[[Mediated Sex]]'' (1996) by Brian McNair
 +*''[[Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching]]'' (2009) by Kelly Dennis
 +*''[[Art & Pornography: Philosophical Essays]]'' (2012) by Hans Maes and Jerrold Levinson
 +*''[[Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography]]'' (2013) by Hans Maes
-Related: [[James Atlas]] - [[academic]] - [[Laura Kipnis]] - [[pornography]] - [[Brian McNair]] - [[Connie Shortes]] - [[Linda Williams]] - [[paracinema]]+== See also ==
- +*[[Body genre]]
-== The Loose Canon ==+*[[Deviant modernism]]
- +*[[Paracinema]]
-No longer the preserve of sleazy shops, pornography is now being embraced in the respected halls of academia, writes JAMES ATLAS+*[[Pornographic art]]
-IN THE Musical Offering Café, across the street from the Berkeley campus, Linda Williams, a professor of film studies at the University of California, was describing to me the virtues of Latex, a futuristic hard-core porn flick about a man possessed of the psychic ability to divine people's sexual fantasies.+*[[Pornosophy]]
- +*[[Pornotopia]]
-Williams is the author of a book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible', a study of pornography which has gained a wide readership among academics and has just been reprinted in a revised, illustrated edition. She also teaches a graduate course entitled "Pornographies On/scene", which features the in-class viewing not only of such classics as Deep Throat, The Opening of Misty Beethoven and Behind the Green Door, but also of rawer specimens, like Suburban Dykes and John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut.+*[[Porn/art debate]]
- +*''[[Porn Studies]]'', journal
-A handsome woman with greying hair and horn-rimmed glasses, Williams is the very antithesis of a campus radical. Her conversation is equable, measured and wide-ranging in its cultural references; she's as likely to drop the name of D H Lawrence or Jacques Lacan as that of the porn star Candida Royalle. Her book, an erudite and closely argued assessment of porn films from the crude era of stag through to the lavish extravaganzas of today, belongs on the growing shelf of academic works devoted to pornography, books by scholars like Laura Kipnis, a tenured professor at Northwestern known for her pioneering study of the industry, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Pornography in America, and Chris Straayer, of New York University, the author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientation in Film and Video.+*[[History of erotica]]
- +*[[Erotica vs. pornography debate]]
-Both of those books are on the syllabus of Rhetoric 241, as Williams's course is blandly identified in the Berkeley catalogue. Students must also work their way through some heavy theory - such as Foucault's classic History of Sexuality and the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson's essay "Pleasure: A Political Issue" - and write a 20-page paper "on some aspect of visual pornography". -- © The New Yorker via http://www.suntimes.co.za/1999/05/30/lifestyle/life07.htm [Oct 2005]+*[[Scientia sexualis]]
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Academic study of pornography concerns the study of pornography in accordance with the scientific method.

It became popular in American academia in the late 20th century. James Atlas was one of the first to point out the trend in a 1999 article on the subject, which included an interview with Linda Williams, who is known for an early study in this field, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure (1989).

List of researchers and publications

See also


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