Reviews for Hard core

The average rating for Hard core based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-04 00:00:00 Gary Abrahams I think it's pretty ridiculous to read some of the reviews regarding this book. "It's dry" or "It's dated" Did it not occur to those readers that they are reading an academic film theory book? Or that at the time of publishing it was a pioneering study? Williams captivated me with her comparisons of porn to musicals and S&M to the final girl in horror films. I laughed out loud when she described what it must have been like for the Greek gods, Zeus and Hera, to watch porn together. Although I have yet to read other academic studies of porn, it's clear Williams gave porn studies worth - validation that the genre had more going on then explicit sex.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-11 00:00:00 esa viitanen I remember reading this book back in grad school when it was the go-to giggle for bookworms who found it provocative to speak of Foucault and Lovelace in the same sentence. It's actually a worthwhile read for those looking for a "grammar" of pornography. Since the early 90s, "adult entertainment" has become an accepted medium of study, with some schools even offering courses in its analysis---most of them heaily indebted to this study. If anything, the cultural pleasures that "hardcore" supposedly appeals to have become mindnumbingly obvious since the Clintonian age, somewhat lessening the impact of this study. Still, I swear Paul Thomas Anderson read this as he was writing BOOGIE NIGHTS....