Review of Pornography: Structures, Agency, and Performance by Rebecca Sullivan & Alan McKee, Polity Press 2015. (PB/HB). 219pp. REVIEW BY MARTIN FRADLEY, University of Brighton Has contemporary pornography lost its transgressive status, or does it remain the locus of conservative moral panic? A handful of media events as I was reading this book would suggest … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW – Pornography: Structures, Agency, and Performance
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Book Review – The War on Sex
Review of The War on Sex by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, eds. Duke University Press. 2017. Review by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK.
Book Review – Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
Review of Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema by John Tulloch and Belinda Middleweek. Oxford University Press. 2017. Review by Connor Winterton, Birmingham City University, UK.
Book Review – Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Review of Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood by Sherianne Kramer. Routledge. 2017. Review by Isaac Gustafsson Wood, University of Southampton, UK.
Book Review – Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television
Review of Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television by Kyra Clarke. Routledge. 2017. (HB/eBook). 248pp. Review by Madita Oeming, University of Paderborn, Germany.
Book Review – Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
Review of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s by Elena Gorfinkel. University of Minnesota Press. 2017. [HB/PB]. 320pp. Review by Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Southern California, USA.
Book Review – Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
Review of Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema by David Church. Bloomsbury. 2016. (HB, PB, eBook). 296pp.
Review by Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University, US.
Book Review – Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema
Review of Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Review by Alice Haylett Bryan, King's College London, UK.
Book Review – Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity
Review of Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity by John Mercer. I. B. Tauris. 2017. Review by Brandon Arroyo, Concordia University, Canada.
Book Review – Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy
review by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK.
