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C/MD/56. 'Pornography? I know it when I see it….' (Justice Potter Stewart) How do you think this makeshift, subjective definition would function if applied to today's mainstream films, television programmes and advertising campaigns?

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2008
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The paper details a range of definitions for pornography and obscenity referenced to Andrea Dworkin, Laura Kipnis, Linda Williams and Kerstin Mey. The shifts in the definitions are discussed considering the implications they may have on the production, reception and regulation of sexual representation in mainstream visual cultural texts.

 

KEYWORDS: Pornography, Radical Feminism, Obscenity, Censorship,

 
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