In this now-classic study, the author moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anticensorship debate to analyze what had-core film pornography is and what it does. 25 illustrations.
Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film (California, 1981) and editor of Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (1995).