Location
Room 212, West Center
Keywords
pornography, feminist, media studies, pornography studies, fellatio, alternative fashion
Start Date
April 2016
End Date
April 2016
Abstract
In this project, I am interested in how we as a culture talk and make stories about heterosexual non-fetish pornography that contains fellatio scenes. Fellatio, being a site of social power and relation, can be conceptualized and portrayed in different ways based on the ideology and intentions of the context a text portraying fellatio it is created in. In this project I reasoned that mainstream pornography and feminist pornography would show fellatio in different ways, revealing the basic differences in each genre’s content and execution. To this effect, I analyzed six films from both feminist and mainstream pornographies and have concluded that a more effective naming and method of analysis of pornography is needed. Textual analysis in pornography needs to blossom up and become a part of a larger method that is more variegated; something that includes other strands of conversation as it and after it analyzes the text itself. A fusion of audience, structural and textual analysis and affective study is one of the ways this project points to for how media scholars could find a new way to analyze pornography texts. This matters because we as selves “begin” instead in the multitude of ways media affects our being. The very outermost parts of our selves begin in interaction with the media products around us and our creations of and with communications. This is why it is important to delve into the way we perform meaning making of all media-- including pornography
Included in
Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons
But What Does “It” Mean: An Analysis of Feminist & Mainstream Pornographies
Room 212, West Center
In this project, I am interested in how we as a culture talk and make stories about heterosexual non-fetish pornography that contains fellatio scenes. Fellatio, being a site of social power and relation, can be conceptualized and portrayed in different ways based on the ideology and intentions of the context a text portraying fellatio it is created in. In this project I reasoned that mainstream pornography and feminist pornography would show fellatio in different ways, revealing the basic differences in each genre’s content and execution. To this effect, I analyzed six films from both feminist and mainstream pornographies and have concluded that a more effective naming and method of analysis of pornography is needed. Textual analysis in pornography needs to blossom up and become a part of a larger method that is more variegated; something that includes other strands of conversation as it and after it analyzes the text itself. A fusion of audience, structural and textual analysis and affective study is one of the ways this project points to for how media scholars could find a new way to analyze pornography texts. This matters because we as selves “begin” instead in the multitude of ways media affects our being. The very outermost parts of our selves begin in interaction with the media products around us and our creations of and with communications. This is why it is important to delve into the way we perform meaning making of all media-- including pornography
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I'm attaching the full text of the file---which is very long . If accepted, I will condense the paper down to presentation length. (15-20 minutes)