[WS:] That is different - it puts food on her table.
Wojtek
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 08:38 AM 5/12/2011, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> Where I am coming from, polite people do not deliberate merits or demerits
>> of pornography in public.
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> 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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> http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2011/04/doug-henwood-interview-susie-bright-at-the-strand-new-york-city.html
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> http://www.salon.com/march97/interview970318.html
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> (Susie Bright) America's leading crusader for good, dirty fun talks about
> our cheap strip-tease culture, the state of porn and the free-for-all
> potential of the Internet.
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> http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/linda_williams.html
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>> Rhetoric Department
>> 7329 Dwinelle Hall
>> University of California
>> Berkeley, CA 94720
>> 510.642-2174
>> E-mail: lwillie at berkeley.edu
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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.
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