UID:
almahu_9948109908102882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780252050886 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Feminist media studies
Content:
Victorian literature - with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy - belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways. Laura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780252042140
Language:
English
URL:
Illinois scholarship online
