Indie Porn

Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

Zahra Stardust (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3106-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	A Camera Obscura book
Zusatzinfo	39 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-3106-9 / 1478031069
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3106-2 / 9781478031062
Zustand	Neuware