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Cable, Pornography, and the Reinvention of Television, 1982–1989
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 53, Number 3, Spring 2014
- pp. 52-75
- 10.1353/cj.2014.0026
- Article
- Additional Information
This article surveys the discourses produced by the emergence of pornographic programming on cable television during the 1980s, advancing an argument not only that pornography helped establish cable as a consumer medium, as existing analyses have asserted, but also that the cultural and regulatory responses to pornography on cable helped establish a new ontology for television as a sexual technology.