Overview

In the growing scholarly literature on music in film, one category that remains discreetly neglected is pornography. Yet in 2003 it was reported that in Los Angeles alone there are more than 10,000 porn films made each year, as compared with average of 400 feature films coming out of Hollywood. This is, by any qualitative standard, a major film genre. From as far afield as the UK, the US, South Africa, Australia and Finland, this collection explores the role of sound and music across a wide spectrum of pornography and its increasingly uncertain boundaries with mainstream erotica.

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Author:   Bruce Johnson
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781845533182

ISBN 10:   1845533186
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Bruce Johnson 1. Sound Decisions: Interviews with Ole Ege Bruce Johnson 2. Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Cliche: Erotic Plenitude in the Films of Russ Meyer Mark Evans (with Matt Burgess) 3. The Push/Pull Game: The Dynamics of Sound in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky Lesley Chow, film writer 4. Depraved Desire: Sado-Masochism, Sexuality and Sound in mid-1970s Cinema Clarice Butkus, MA candidate, New York University 5. The Peculiar 'Love' Music in Oshima's Ai no korida James Wierzbicki, University of Michigan 6. Lust in Space: Science Fiction Themes & Sex Cinema (1960-82) Phil Hayward, Southern Cross University and Macquarie University 7. Zero Gravity Phil Hayward and Emil Stoichkov, actor and filmmaker 8. It's Gotta Be That New Wave MusicA"": Music in New Wave Hookers Carries the Joke Laura Wiebe Taylor, PhD candidate, McMaster University 9. Making a mall movie about a man with a 13-inch penisA"": popular music representations of pornographic intention Liz Giuffre, PhD candidate, Macquarie University 10. Musical Spirals: Eyes Wide Shut - Ears Wide Open Kevin Clifton, Indiana State University 11. Multiple Positions: Sound, Sex and Aural Dominance in 9 Songs Andrea Warren, independent scholar 12. Music, Image, and Orgasm: Getting Off on the Shortbus Marianne Tatom Letts, independent scholar 13. In Extremis: The roots, soundscapes and significations of 21st Century zombie porn Ralph Marsh, independent scholar"

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Bruce Johnson is Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland, and Liverpool University. His prolific publications in popular music and literary studies include the Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz.

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