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 – Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy
review by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK.
‘You can be whoever you want to be’: Neoliberal Culture and The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
by Martin Fradley, University of Brighton, UK. Based on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film, Starz’ US television drama The Girlfriend Experience (2016) is an unsettling tale of entrepreneurial selfhood. Taking place within a rarefied social universe, it is filmed in the visual lingua franca of the neoliberal present: a coolly desaturated blue-grey world of glacial surfaces, … Continue reading ‘You can be whoever you want to be’: Neoliberal Culture and The Girlfriend Experience (2016)
Screening Sex 