Pornography - the Longford Report

Pornography - the Longford Report
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Publisher : London : Coronet
Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : 0340163348
ISBN-13 : 9780340163344
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Pornography - the Longford Report by : Longford Committee Investigating Pornography

After seeing the London production of Oh! Calcutta!, the seventh Earl of Longford rose in the House of Lords to deliver an anti-obscenity speech so stirring that it stirred the Earl himself to action. An unofficial, privately financed 52-man committee chosen and headed by Longford, completed 16 months of investigation by publishing this 520-page report on pornography. Unlike the President's commission in the U.S., Lord Longford's study found that pornography creates an addiction leading to deviant obsessions and actions. He also recommended that Britain's anti-obscenity laws be strengthened and extended. Such conclusions would perhaps not be surprising from a group organized by a former leader of the House of Lords, a Roman Catholic convert and one of 24 knights companions of the Order of the Garter (motto: Evil to him who evil thinks). But Lord Longford is also a longtime socialist who helped design the British welfare state, a self-styled fellow-traveling member of Women's Lib and the first member of the House of Lords to speak in favor of legalizing private adult homosexual acts. Longford and the bishops, social scientists, housewives, educators, pop stars and writers who made up the committee sampled pornography of every kink and kind. They interviewed purveyors, performers and police and sorted through the 5,000 letters that poured in to them.

Offensive Literature

Offensive Literature
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0389203548
ISBN-13 : 9780389203544
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Offensive Literature by : John Sutherland

This provocative book takes decensorship from the 1960 Lady Chatterley trial through the long-term drive against pornography which continues into the 1980s.

Pornography

Pornography
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 286
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780813538716
ISBN-13 : 0813538718
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Pornography by : Peter Lehman

Brings critical insights to the reality of porn and what it can tell us about ourselves sexually, culturally, and economically. Divided into two sections, this book covers important debates on the topic and traces the evolution of pornographic film, including comparing its development to that of Hollywood cinema.

Sex Exposed

Sex Exposed
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0813519381
ISBN-13 : 9780813519388
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Sex Exposed by : Lynne Segal

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to questions about sexuality. By the 1980s these questions had become more and more focused on the issue of pornography--now a metaphor for the menace of male power. Collapsing feminist politics into sexuality and sexuality into pornography has not only caused some of the deepest splits between feminists, but made it harder to think clearly about either sexuality or pornography--indeed, about feminist politics more generally. This provocative collection, by well-known feminists, surveys these arguments, and in particular asks why recent feminist debates about sexuality keep reducing to questions of pornography.

LIFE

LIFE
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis LIFE by :

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

The Sexual Subject

The Sexual Subject
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781136129001
ISBN-13 : 1136129006
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sexual Subject by : Mandy Merck

The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen> over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence. The reader then goes on to explore the particular questions and debates which that conjuction provoked: arguments around pornography and the represenation of the body: questions of the representation of femininity and masculinity, of the female spectator, and of the social subject. Many of the writings in this Reader have become indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the Reader is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections in one volume between debates and inquiries which spanned two crucial decades of film theory. The Sexual Subject is intended not only for all those with a particular interest in film and film theory, but for anyone with a serious commitment to cultural theory, theories of representation, and questions of sexuality and gender.

A Matter of Obscenity

A Matter of Obscenity
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691226101
ISBN-13 : 0691226105
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis A Matter of Obscenity by : Christopher Hilliard

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

Sexual State

Sexual State
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780748649457
ISBN-13 : 074864945X
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Sexual State by : Roger Davidson

This is the first scholarly study of Scotland's sexual coming-of-age in the post-war period, charting its political growth from a deeply moralistic policy framework towards a less judgmental, global and scientific context.

Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography

Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137367938
ISBN-13 : 1137367938
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography by : H. Maes

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations.

The Sexual Subject

The Sexual Subject
Author :
Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0415074665
ISBN-13 : 9780415074667
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sexual Subject by : Screen

The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in ^Screen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with questions of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and video practice. The collection opens with Laura Mulvey's classic "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" with its conjunction of semiotics and psychoanalysis, the critical approach which is most closely associated with Screen's rise to international prominence. The reader then goes on to explore the particular questions and debates which that conjuction provoked: arguments around pornography and the represenation of the body: questions of the representation of femininity and masculinity, of the female spectator, and of the social subject. Many of the writings in this Reader have become indispensable texts within the study of film. The purpose of the Reader is not only to make the articles available to a wider readership, and to a new generation, but also to pose new conjunctions, making connections in one volume between debates and inquiries which spanned two crucial decades of film theory. The Sexual Subject is intended not only for all those with a particular interest in film and film theory, but for anyone with a serious commitment to cultural theory, theories of representation, and questions of sexuality and gender.