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Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Zahra StardustSeries:Camera Obscura BookPublish date:2024-10-29Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031062ISBN-10:1478031069UPC:9781478031062Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (see also Psychology, Media StudiesBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCJF89R1GX
In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Stardust 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. Inevitably, as these paradigms collide, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex, work, and capitalism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031062ISBN-10:1478031069UPC:9781478031062Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (see also Psychology, Media StudiesBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCJF89R1GX
Zahra Stardust is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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