definitions

Question 1

MPAA ratings 1968

Answer 1

G - general audiences
M - suggested for mature audiences
R - restricted, 16’s accompanies by an adult
X - person under 16 not admitted

Question 2

Andy Warhol canon

Answer 2

an aesthetic that challenged tension between abstract and concrete
- Andy Warhol’s blowjob
- no conclusive proof that a blowjob is occurring, allows the viewer to interpret
- speaks to homosexual gaze and identity

Question 3

3 categories of commercial cinema

Answer 3

general release
exploitation release
art cinema
(curious yellow straddled all)

Question 4

define ‘sexploiation’

Answer 4

• genre emerged in late 1950
• designed to exploit adult situations
• goal of sexual display is to expose women’s bodies
• aims to show maximum amount of nudity allowed by law
  (sex world)

Question 5

Blaxploitation

Answer 5

• genre emerging in 1970-75
• violent action
• bodily exposure
• exploiting racial stereotypes
• more audacious than usual Hollywood films
• Sex world ; Anthony Spinelli

Question 6

money shot

Answer 6

Ziplow
- external ejaculation
- signals narrative disclosure
- deep throat shows money shot as fetish (Williams)

Question 7

Meat shot

Answer 7

Williams
- close up penetration showing hard core sex is actually happening

Question 8

hard core

Answer 8

• explicit sex acts of actual sex in comparison to soft-core
• sex world, Spinelli

Question 9

Amateur porn

Answer 9

• describes for the love of it as oppose to for profit
• unscripted
• shaky camera
• untrained, real people
  Susanna Paasonen “sense of truth and authenticity that is central to the genre”
  Humpday film / Pam Tommy Lee sex tape

Question 10

authenticity

Answer 10

• type of emotional and communicative labour marketed commodity
• performance of wanting to be there
• authenticity requires extra labour, individuals speak about their pleasure afterwards
  Mommy is coming (Cheryle Dunye, 2012)

Question 11

feminist porn wars

Answer 11

refers to collective debate on sexuality
- disappointment of sexual revolution
- male violence against women
- newfound commercial visibility in us

Question 12

mumble core

Answer 12

• cinematic style, natural but staged
• shaky camera
  Humpday

Question 13

Queer structure of feeling

Answer 13

Raymond Williams
- articulation of presence formed through resistance to heterosexual society
united in anger : a history of ACT UP (Jim Hubbarb, 2012)

Question 14

Counterpublics

Answer 14

Nancy Fraser
- a “discursive arena that develop in parallel to the official public sphere
Micheal Warner
- they “maintain awareness of their subordinate status”

Question 15

Affect

Answer 15

Brian Massumi
- ability to affect and be affected
- a prepersonal (subconscious) intensity that passes body to body)
- a feeling or subjective experience accompanying a thought or action occurring in
Act up (Jim Hubbard)

Question 16

Down low

Answer 16

• Keith Boykin
• identity category of gay but pretending otherwise
• came from shame and complaint with radicalised heteronormative gender norms

Question 17

glass closet

Answer 17

• Riley Snorton
• space marked by hyper visibiltiy and confinement, spectacle and speculation

Question 18

cruising

Answer 18

Mark W Turner
- practice of looking for other men
- process of walking, gazing and engaging
- not necessarily working towards goal of sexual contact

Question 18

cruising

Answer 18

Mark W Turner
- practice of looking for other men
- process of walking, gazing and engaging
- not necessarily working towards goal of sexual contact
cruising (William Friedkin)

Question 19

Sadomasochism

Answer 19

Richard von Kraft-Ebing 1980
- the act of enjoying inflicting pain and receiving pain during sex

Question 20

Voyeurism

Answer 20

Hitchcock
- gaining sexual pleasure from watching others
Shortbus (John Cameran Mitchell