In this Book
- Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Feminist Media Studies
summary
The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways.
Laura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies. In turn, she exposes what porning the Victorians shows us about pornography as a genre.
A bold foray into theory and other forbidden places, Alice in Pornoland reveals how modern-day Victorian Gothic pornography constantly emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates issues of gender, sexuality, and race.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xxii
- Introduction: Skin Flicks
- pp. 1-30
- Bibliography
- pp. 189-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252050886
Related ISBN(s)
9780252042140, 9780252083853
MARC Record
OCLC
1065537535
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018