Zahra Stardust

Indie Porn

Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Zahra Stardust, herself a porn performer and participant, documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation.

Produktdetails

• A Camera Obscura Book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031062
• ISBN-10: 1478031069
• Artikelnr.: 70011889

Autorenporträt

Zahra Stardust is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Cinematic Intimacies  1
Introduction: Democratizing Pornography  7
Part I. Porn Cultures
Porno Camp  31
1. Guerrilla Porn: Motivations and Interventions 34
Getting Our Hands Wet  63
2. Imagining Alternatives: Production Values and Ethics  67
Part II. Regulatory Fantasies
What Happened to Our Squirt?  91
3. Criminal Intimacies: Regulatory Trends and Transgressions  94
Diversity Washing  123
4. #NSFW: Online Privatization, Sanitization, and Gentrification  127
Part III. The Hustle
SuicideGirls  157
5. Manufacturing Authenticity: Expression, Identity, and Labor  160
Green, Organic Porn  184
6. Fair Trade Porn: Marketing, Respectability, and Ethical Consumption  187
Part IV. Tensions
Your Stigma, Your Labor  211
7. Good Porn: Stigma, Respectability, and Diversity Politics  213
COVID-Safe Pornography  237
8. Whore Data: Technology, Design, and Carceral Surveillance  239
Birth Preparation  261
Conclusion: Indie Provocations  263
References  275
Index  297