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Author Paasonen, Susanna, 1975-

Title Carnal resonance : affect and online pornography / Susanna Paasonen
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement
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
Analysis DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Internet pornography -- Research
Internet research.
Erotica
Internet
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Internet research
Internet
Pornografie
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011007758
ISBN 0262298813
9780262298810
1283321769
9781283321761
0262297930
9780262297936
9786613321763
6613321761