The price of pleasure : pornography, sexuality & relationships /

"Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more over...

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Main Author: Picker, Miguel (Composer, Producer, Director, Photographer, Film editor)
Corporate Authors: Open Lens Media, Media Education Foundation
Other Authors: Sun, Chyng-Feng (Producer, Director, Screenwriter), Tennie, Matthew (Narrator), Wosnitzer, Robert (Screenwriter)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:Optional English subtitles.
Published: Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2008]
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Summary:"Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film places the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. The Price of Pleasure moves beyond the liberal versus conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate areas of our lives"--Container.
Item Description:Can be viewed in edited or unedited versions.
"Viewer discretion advised: contains violence, nudity & sexual imagery"--Container.
Special features: Noam Chomsky on pornography; Donkey punch.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; widescreen.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Miguel Picker ; editor, Miguel Picker ; original music & sound desgin, Miguel Picker.
ISBN:1932869263
9781932869262