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Author Paasonen, Susanna, 1975-

Title Carnal resonance : affect and online pornography / Susanna Paasonen.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : carnal appeal -- Bad taste, miasmic forces, and the ubiquity of online porn -- Amateur wives and the attraction of authenticity -- The literal and the hyperbolic : mapping the modalities of porn -- Visual pleasures : from gaze to grab and resonance -- Absolutely disgusting : shock sites, extremity, and the forbidden fruit -- Conclusions : the tactile grab of online pornography.
Summary Here, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Internet pornography -- Research.
Internet pornography.
Research.
Internet research.
Internet research.
Erotica.
Internet.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780262016315 0262016311 (DLC) 2011007758
ISBN 0262298813 (electronic book)
9780262298810 (electronic book)
1283321769
9781283321761
9780262016315 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262016311 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)