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PERSPECTIVES ON PORNOGRAPHY INSIGHTS General Editor: Clive Bloom, Lecturer in English and Coordinator of American Studies, Middlesex Polytechnic Editorial Board: Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty, Jane Gibb, Keith Shand Insights brings to academics, students and general readers the very best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. It consists of anthologies, each containing original contri butions by advanced scholars and experts. Each contribution concentrates on a study of a particular work, author or genre in its artistic, historical and cultural context. Published titles Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty, Jane Gibb and Keith Shand (editors) NINETEENTH-CENTURY SUSPENSE: From Poe to Conan Doyle Clive Bloom (editor) JACOBEAN POETRY AND PROSE: Rhetoric, Representation and the Popular Imagination Gary Day and Clive Bloom (editors) PERSPECTIVES ON PORNOGRAPHY: Sexuality in Film and Literature Brian Docherty (editor) AMERICAN CRIME FICTION: Studies in the Genre Jeffrey Walsh and James Aulich (editors) VIETNAM IMAGES: War and Representation Further titles in preparation Series Standing Order If you would like to receive future titles in this series as they are published, you can make use of our standing order facility. To place a standing order please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address and the name of the series. Please state with which title you wish to begin your standing order. (If you live outside the UK we may not have the rights for your area, in which case we will forward your order to the publisher concerned.) Standing Order Service, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG 21 2XS, England. Perspectives on Pornography Sexuality in Film and Literature Edited by Gary Day Clive Bloom and M MACMILLAN PRESS ©the Editorial Board, Lumiere (Co-operative) Press Ltd 1988 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1988 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by Wessex Typesetters (Division of The Eastern Press Ltd) Frome, Somerset British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Perspectives on pornography: sexuality in film and literature. -(insights). 1. Pornography 2. Erotic art. I. Day, Gary II. Bloom, Clive III. Series 704.9'428 NX650.E7 ISBN 978-0-333-46539-4 ISBN 978-1-349-19557-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-19557-2 Contents Preface and Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii 1 Introduction 1 Gary Day PART ONE HISTORICAL 2 Grinding with the Bachelors: Pornography in a Machine 9 Age Clive Bloom 3 Disseminating Desire: Grove Press and 'The End[ s] of 26 Obscenity' Richard Ellis 4 Feature-length Sex Films 44 Anthony Crabbe PART TWO THEORETICAL 5 Is the Gaze Feminist? Pornography, Film and Feminism 69 Maggie Humm 6 Looking at Women: Notes toward a Theory of Porn 83 Gary Day 7 Romance Fiction: Porn for Women? 101 Alison Assiter PART THREE CRITICAL 8 Beyond Ideology: Kate Millett and the Case for Henry 113 Miller Michael Woolf v vi Contents 9 Pope's Rape of Excess 129 Laura Claridge 10 Wayward Girls but Wicked Women? Female Sexuality in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber 144 Avis Lewallen 11 Sex and the Superman: An Analysis of the Pornographic Content of Marinetti' s Mafarka le futuriste 159 Carol Diethe Index 175 Preface and Acknowledgements This volume provides a forum for a male-female dialogue concern ing the history, dissemination and consequences of pornographic representation, with particular reference to pornography and eroti cism in literature and film. The topic is one fraught with moral, political and sexual tensions, which the contributors tackle from a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives, such as feminism, post-structuralism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and film theory. In so doing they challenge established views and seek to open doors for further exploration and debate. The editors would like to thank Jane Gibb, Keith Shand, Lesley Bloom, Hazel Day, Graham Eyre, Carol Diethe and Frances Arnold for all their help and encouragement. G. D. and C. B. vii Notes on the Contributors Alison Assiter teaches Philosophy at Thames Polytechnic. She has published numerous articles and is the author of Pornography and Feminism. Clive Bloom is Coordinator of American Studies at Middlesex Polytechnic. He is General Editor of the Insights series and is the author of two books, The 'Occult' Experience and the New Criticism and Reading Poe, Reading Freud: The Romantic Imagination in Crisis. Laura Claridge is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and has published widely on feminist issues. She is currently working on a book, The Paradox of Desire, and is co-editor of Male Feminist Voices. Anthony Crabbe teaches History of Art and Design at Trent Polytechnic. His research interests include Cubism and Purism and he is currently writing a book on the philosophical concept of time. Gary Day is a member of the Graduate Centre of Middlesex Polytechnic. He is writing his doctoral thesis on Dickens. He has published various articles and poetry. Carol Diethe is a lecturer in German at Middlesex Polytechnic. She is currently translating Mafarka le futuriste by F. Marinelli. Richard Ellis teaches English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He has published a number of articles on critical theory in practice. Maggie Humm is Coordinator of Women's Studies at North East London Polytechnic. She has published a number of articles and essays on a wide range of feminist issues. She is also a member of Network, which represents women teaching in the humanities. Avis Lewallen studied English at North London Polytechnic and is currently completing an MAin Women's Studies at the University viii Notes on the Contributors ix of Kent. She has contributed an article on pornography in popular fiction to The Female Gaze. Michael Woolf teaches literature at Tottenham College of Tech nology and writes on cultural matters for BBC Radio 4.
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