>Where I am coming from, polite people do not deliberate merits or
>demerits of pornography in public.
Where in the wide world is this land of politeness? And who are the polite people who inhabit it? Doug is banished from that world I guess:
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>Rhetoric Department
>7329 Dwinelle Hall
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720
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>Bio
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>Linda Williams teaches courses on popular moving-image genres
>(pornography, melodrama, and "body genres" of all sorts). She has
>also recently taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis
>Bunuel, eastern and western forms of melodrama, film theory,
>selected "sex genres," and /The Wire./ Her books include a
>psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, /Figures of Desire/
>(1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (/Re-vision/,
>1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, /Viewing Positions/
>(1993) and /Reinventing Film Studies/ (co-edited with Christine
>Gledhill, 2000). In 1989 she published a study of pornographic film
>entitled /Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible/
>(second edition 1999). This study of moving-image pornography looks
>seriously at the history and form of an enormously popular genre. In
>2001 Williams published /Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black
>and White, from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson/ (2001, Princeton)--an
>analysis of racial melodrama spanning the 19th and 20th centuries of
>American culture. She has also edited a collection of essays on
>pornography, /Porn Studies/, featuring work by many U.C. Berkeley
>graduate students (Duke, 2004). Her most recent book is /Screening
>Sex /(Duke, 2008), a history of the revelation and concealment of
>sex at the movies.