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Author: Alison Assiter Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN: 9780745305240 Category : Censorship Languages : en Pages : 200
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For well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.Many feminists would say that this widely publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that the increasingly vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have allowed feminists to deviate drastically from the basic goals of women's liberation.Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments.Contributions from a wide range of women, including sex workers and academics, remind us that pornography does not have a special place in our oppression, and that censorship must still be seen as dangerous enemy of women. Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures is a much-needed antidote to falsehoods, shabby thinking, and patronising sexism that have fuelled anti-pornography campaigns and misled the women's movement.
Author: Alison Assiter Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN: 9780745305240 Category : Censorship Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
For well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.Many feminists would say that this widely publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that the increasingly vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have allowed feminists to deviate drastically from the basic goals of women's liberation.Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments.Contributions from a wide range of women, including sex workers and academics, remind us that pornography does not have a special place in our oppression, and that censorship must still be seen as dangerous enemy of women. Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures is a much-needed antidote to falsehoods, shabby thinking, and patronising sexism that have fuelled anti-pornography campaigns and misled the women's movement.
Author: Peter Biskind Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439127107 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 560
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In this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood—most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax Films an indie powerhouse. As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind “takes on the movie industry of the 1990s and again gets the story” (The New York Times). Biskind charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. He follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell, are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman. Candid, controversial, and “sensationally entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Down and Dirty Pictures is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world.
Author: Brian Doherty Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1647001102 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 575
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A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix! In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their “comix,” spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries, presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips often ran afoul of the law, but that would not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come, eventually moving the entire comics form beyond the gutter and into fine-art galleries. Author Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Pekar, and Howard Cruse, among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement. Through dozens of new interviews and archival research, Doherty chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and ’70s, beginning with the artists’ origin stories and following them through success and strife, and concluding with an examination of these creators’ legacies, Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that recontextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression.
Author: Peter Biskind Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 9780684862583 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 572
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In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers inspired by the directors of the 1970s began to flower outside the studio system. In the following decade, the independent movement bloomed. In this volume Biskind tells the story of these filmmakers and the independent distributors.
Author: Jeremy Geltzer Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477307435 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 385
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Boxing, porn, and the beginnings of movie censorship -- The rise of salacious cinema -- State regulations emerge -- Mutual and the capacity for evil -- War, nudity, and birth control -- Self-regulation reemerges -- Midnight movies and sanctioned cinema -- Sound enters the debate -- Tension increases between free speech and state censorship -- Threats from abroad and domestic disturbances -- Outlaws and miracles -- State censorship statutes on the defense -- Devil in the details : film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments -- Dirty words : profanity and the patently offensive -- Filthy pictures : obscenity from nudie cuties to fetish films -- The porno chic : from Danish loops to Deep throat -- Just not here : content regulation through zoning -- Is censorship necessary? -- The politics of profanity
Author: Micha Ramakers Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312276942 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 292
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Paperback edition of this groundbreaking study of the art of Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), better known as Tom of Finland, in which Micha Ramakers explores the incredible and defining impact he has had upon gay culture. A lively and entertaining work encompassing the rise of the gay movement, the world of fine art and the functioning of pornography, this is an ideal work for the millions of Tom's fans throughout the world and of interest to readers unfamiliar with his work. Illustrated in b/w throughout.
Author: Kristin Kimball Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416551611 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.
Author: Anuradha Marwah Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indic fiction (English) Languages : en Pages : 300
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Dirty Picture is the story of two sisters whose liaisons create scandal in a small town. Leaving her husband's home in Bombay, Reena returns to Ajmer wearing the ring of a married CEO. She intends to rebuild her life even if it means stepping out of convention. Meanwhile, her teenage sister Bharti has stumbled into local politics. Although imbued with a reformatory zeal, she gets sucked into a veritable quagmire of sexual intrigue because of her naivety and inexperience. While Bharti's life begins to disintegrate, dragging all around her into a nightmare of exploitation, Reena struggles to keep her castle in the air from imminent collapse. Circumstances become inexorable as the moral brigade closes in on the hapless Bharti and Reena discovers that the CEO is more in love with his image on T.V. Anuradha Marwah writes feelingly about desire, abuse and small town society. Her searing third novel imaginatively explores the 'sex scandal' that shook Ajmer in the 1990s and raises deeply disturbing questions about love and consent. …she is erudite, has a way with words and compels attention. - Khushwant Singh
Author: Lisa Palac Publisher: Little Brown & Company ISBN: 9780316688499 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 214
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Called "the queen of high-tech porn" by The New York Times, the author charts her errancy from Catholic schoolgirl to feminist advocate of pornography and explores the challenges faced by sexually provocative women. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
Author: Alison Assiter
Author: Alison Assiter
Author: Peter Biskind
Author: Brian Doherty
Author: Peter Biskind
Author: Jeremy Geltzer
Author: Micha Ramakers
Author: Kristin Kimball
Author: Anuradha Marwah
Author: Lisa Palac
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