Discusses the critical and cultural value of the sex scene.
Recenzijos
At a moment when sex scenes are reportedly disappearing from mainstream cinema, editors Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy bring together a diverse and engaging collection of essays that interrogate what this absence means. Spanning contemporary screen media, this volume offers fresh, timely insights into how sexual content is shaped, regulated and reimagined. * Clarissa Smith, Professor of Media, Northumbria University *
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Sex seen and unseen: The dialectics of the sex scene
Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy
Part I. Locations, Boundaries, Histories
1. Goin up the country: Early adult film production and exhibition in
Eugene, Oregon
Peter Alilunas
2. If youre feeling blue: The screening of hardcore pornography on Britain
Oliver Carter
3. Speculative methods for excavating gay industry history: Jack Jacksons
leather cowboy scene in San Diego County
Farrah Freibert
4. Open secrets, closed doors and national treasures: Social responsibility
and cultural reparation in narratives of child sexual abuse
Darren Kerr
Part II Censorship, Regulation, Legislation
5. The scene and the seen: Discourses in censorship and female pleasure in
India
Darshana Sreedhar Mini
6. Pushing the boundaries of screening sex and sexuality in popular Egyptian
cinema: The Malatili Bathhouse
Samar Abdel-Rahman
7. The sex in them is as ludicrous as anything else: Thinking through sex,
shit and the censor with John Waters Pink Flamingos
Katie Arthur
Part III Technology, Consumption, Commodification
8. From Sex and the City to Grace and Frankie: Changing representations of
sex toys and sex tech on Screen
Lynn Comella
9. Stars and seduction in tantai Films: Exploring the sexual logics of
contemporary Japan via adult videos
Thomas Baudinette and Alexandra Hambleton
10. The frenzy of the intelligible: AI sex scenes in Her and Blade Runner
2049
Laurence Kent
11. Sex on the very small screen: Data cultures and sexual consent
Rebecca Saunders
Part IV Collectivity, Connections, Affect
12. On crowd sex: Crowd psychology, crowd pornography and Fleapit
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
13. Watching porn in public: Ann Hirschs Cuts series at The Pleasure
Principle exhibition
Kylie Harris
14. We dont have any queer porn in Finland: Ephemerality of a scene
Susanna Paasonen and Daniel Cardoso
Index
Darren Kerr is Associate Professor of Sexual Cultures and Head of the Bath School of Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University, UK. His research interests focus on the politics and representation of sexual cultures on screen. His publications largely focus on pornography, perversion and sexual violence, and include Hard to Swallow: Hard-core Pornography on Screen (2012), Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion (2017) and two-volume collection The Sex Scene (2026). He is series editor ofEdinburgh University Presss Screening Sex book series, a member of Routledges Porn Studies editorial board and co-director of the Screening Sex network. Donna Peberdyis Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender at Southampton Solent University, UK. Her publications includeMasculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema(2011),Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion(2017) and two-volume collectionThe Sex Scene(2026). She is a series editor ofEdinburgh University Presss Screening Sex book series and co-director of the Screening Sex network. Donna is currently writing a bookScreening Sexual Violence, supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.
