quotes Flashcards
“To screen is to reveal on a screen. But a second, equally important meaning, as the dictionary reads, is ‘to shelter or protect as a screen.’ Movies both reveal and conceal.”
“…every kiss in every film is already a kind of documentary of that particular, intimate, and yet still publicly acceptable sex act in a way that an act of violence, which is usually faked, is not. In or out of character, two people must really kiss in a film close-up.”
“Kisses, when stylized and elaborated by the Hollywood narrative cinema, would eventually become synecdoches for the whole sex act.”
Linda Williams
- challenging censorship
- the Divorcee
“Hard core desires assurance that it is witnessing not the voluntary performance of feminine pleasure, but its involuntary confession. The woman’s ability to fake the orgasm that the man can never fake (at least according to certain standards of evidence) seems to be at the root of all the genre’s attempts to solicit what it can never be sure of: the out-of-control confession of pleasure. a hard-core “frenzy of the visible.”
“principle of maximum visibility”
Linda Williams
- hard core porn
- authenticity
- privileging close ups of body parts
- sexual positions that show the most body parts
sex world (Anthony Spinelli)
“Up and down, up and down, to the very depths of cosmic truth I saw that two-inches-short- of-a-foot-long cock engulfed like some soft vacuum cleaner taking vengeance on man for eons of past suckfuls. Then the climactic moment I was poised and ready for appeared! Hot white cum shot out and Our Lady of the Lips lapped it up. I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah. “Stupendous!” was all I could shout as I stood up and spent my applause on the glory that mine eyes had just seen.”
Goldstein
- deep throat
- money shot
“There are those who believe that the come shot, or as some refer to it, the money shot, is the most important element in the movie and that everything else (if necessary) should be sacrificed at its expense. Of course, this depends on the outlook of the producer, but one thing is for sure: if you don’t have come shots, you don’t have a porno picture.”
Ziplow
- money shot
- deep throat
“Probably the most explicit point of communion between pornography and the home movie, as ersatz genres of film production, is the promise that they both attempt to reveal the ’truth.’ The idea that technology enables us to create documents of our experiences determines something of our response to watching pornography, much as it motivates our recordings of new babies or family holidays… Both show facsimiles of intimacy and revelation; they seem to ease access to those things most fundamental to our humanity.”
Minette
- Amateur porn
- Hump day or pam and Tommy sex tape
– “[I]t’s just fucking! We don’t need a love story, or an elaborate story line, because
hard-core fucking is just sexy.”
– “I don’t direct the sex. I don’t tell them what to do . It’s all about the process and
trying to stay invisible.”
– “I’ve learned that the less I think about the sex, the better I can capture it.”
We collaborate with performers to shoot based on how they’d like to be presented. Performers come up with the episode plot (to ad-lib a script, or skip straight to the sex), and negotiate boundaries to decide on mutually consensual actions prior to filming, informing the crew of what they would like to do. If you see a sex act on the site, it’s because the performers wanted to do it and the crew consented to film it.”
Louise Houston
- founder of crashpad
- amateur porn
- authenticity
“It is not a mysterious affliction that seems to strike at random. Indeed, to get AIDS is precisely to be revealed, in the majority of cases so far, as a member of a certain ‘risk group,’ a community of pariahs. The illness flushes out an identity that might have remained hidden from neighbors, jobmates, family, friends.”
“Medicine changed mores. Illness is changing them back. Contraception and the assurance by medicine of the easy curability of sexually transmitted diseases (as of almost all infectious diseases) made it possible to regard sex as an adventure without consequences. Now AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.”
Susan Sontag
- labelling of aids has harmful implications
- aids as plague : presents aids as punishment “inflicted not just endured”
- aids as virus : personal responsibility to not spread it
- aids as sex : plague and virus’ are public health disasters but sex is a personal act
act up
“When I joined ACT UP in 1992, it had been created because we were tired of being the poor gay guys who were victims of the epidemic,” he says with a rueful laugh. “We decided to become the evil fags and dykes. We didn’t care about giving a good image of homosexuality to the rest of society. So, when I did this film, I tried to reconnect to that type of legitimacy
Robin Campillo
- queer structure of feelings
- counter publics
- Act-up
“public sphere as virtual or imaginary community which does not necessarily exist in identifiable space”
Nancy Fraser
- counter publics
- Act up
- aids crisis
“Concretized as a term in the early 2000s, “the down low” has been one in myriad discursive practices that link black sexuality with duplicity. However, the down low is fundamentally polysemous (meaning that it has many coexisting meanings), as it stands in for a group, a sexual practice, a location for said practices, a discursive concept, and a mass mediatized spectacle. Even as colloquial understandings of the term typically include Latino men in definitions of the down low, and many have argued for a decoupling of blackness from this particular disidentificatory sexual practice, the down low continues to circulate in popular culture as a black sexual phenomenon.”
“… the down low, commonly understood to describe a group of black men’s sexual practices, might actually characterize the condition for black sexual representation. Black sexuality then is figured within a “glass closet,” a space I define as marked by hypervisibility and confinement, spectacle, and speculation.”
Riley Snorton
- down low
Cover (Bill Duke)
“There’s an art to cruising and it has a lot to do with timing and with the eyes. Take eyes first. You’re walking down the street and you pass a man going in the opposite direction.Your eyes lock but you both keep on moving.After a few paces you glance back and see that the man has stopped and is facing a store window but looking in your direction. If he’s not exactly the partner you’re searching for you’ll probably register the compliment his stare is paying you but leave it at that. But if he does catch your fancy you may go through the little charade of examining the shop window nearest you. ”
Turner
- cruising
- cruising (William Friedkin)
from its opening scene, makes a show of the camera’s ability to transgress the boundaries—and thus transcend the distinction—between inside and outside, private and public, as it glides through a series of apartment windows in a celebration of the triumph of the on/scene.”
Young
- public vs private
- veouyerism
“The prostitute is in varying proportions an object of desire, representing those qualities in life for which the male experiences an aching want, and an object of hatred, symbolizing everything in the female other he wishes to deny or destroy.”
Russel Campbell
- Tangerine (Sean Baker)
- Sex worker instead of prostitute to stray from promoting shame on prostitution (Leigh)
