Velvet Light Trap articles from March 2007

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 2007

Introduction.(THE EDITORS)
March 22, 2007... In one of the earliest pieces on pornography from the field of film studies Paul Willemen laid out the concept of the fourth look as distinct from the three looks of mainstream narrative cinema: the intradiegetic look of the characters, the...

Prurient pictures and popular film: the crisis of pornographic representation.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Simply put, the term "film pornography" defines any film that offers graphic sexual content as its primary focus. In the case of hard-core film pornography, full-frontal nudity and on-screen penetration are the norm, while soft-core may...

Sound and performance in Stephen Sayadian's: Night Dreams and Cafe Flesh.(adult movie director and his works)(Biography)
March 22, 2007... In 1982 a television news crew from the Midwest arrived in Los Angeles to document the making of a pornographic film. The adult videotape market was just beginning to surge, inspiring these savvy TV journalists to take a behind-the-scenes look...

Porn Star as brand: pornification and the intermedia career of Rakel Liekki.(Biography)
March 22, 2007... Rakel Liekki ("Rachel Flame") is probably the best-known Finnish female porn performer. Her career has ranged from painting to hardcore videos, Web presence, mobile phone services, newspaper and magazine articles, and television shows. She is a...

Hard-core shopping: educating consumption in SIR video production's lesbian porn.(Sex, Indulgence and Rock N' Roll video production)
March 22, 2007... Labeled "100% dyke produced," SIR (Sex, Indulgence and Rock N' Roll) Video Production's lesbian porn videos have been extremely successful on the gay and lesbian film festival circuit and in women-owned bookstores and sex toyshops. (1) Like...

What soft-core can do for porn studies.
March 22, 2007... I have an unfortunate habit of developing rationales for my projects only after completing them. True to form, after finishing Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Context, I noticed I had not highlighted the value of...

An interview with Peter Lehman and Linda Williams.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... Peter Lehman is director of the Center for Film and Media Research and Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is editor of Pornography: Film and Culture. Linda Williams is a professor in the Departments of Film Studies...

Porn Studies.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Porn Studies Edited by Linda Williams Linda Williams may have broken too much ground with Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible," her pioneering book on film and video pornography. In 1989 a study of porn's generic...

The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood By David Thomson David Thomson's The Whole Equation takes the reader inside the Hollywood dream factory while concurrently examining the culture from which these films emanate. Thomson breezes...