Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Seductive seriality: the genre of pornography and its affective structure. Genre trouble: taxonomic pleasure and pain in YouPorn -- How to feel a genre: structured affect in sexual episodes -- Sex machines or the fantasy of bodily efficiency. Sausage factories: the optimized production of pleasure -- Pornographic biopower: discipline and gender on the Internet -- Digital desire: futuristic pleasure in Shu Lea Cheang's I.K.U. -- The state of open being: polyamorous films and the female porn star -- A provoking agent: the porn life of Dana Dearmond -- Polyamorous films: anonymous intimacy in documentary adult films -- A thousand little deaths: episodes and "traumatized narratives" -- Let's talk about death: pornographic endings from Sade to sex blogging -- Beautiful agony: loss of time and space in the close-up -- Nostalgia: strategies of imitation in queer pornography -- Behind the queer door: porno revolution or reaffirmation? -- Remaking the golden age: queer visions of the past in nostalgia -- Squirting glitter: seriality raised to a higher power.
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