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Pornography's impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance have been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as audio-visual and online media from an East Asian perspective.
List of contents
1. Introduction-Reflections on researching pornography across Asia: voices from the region 2. Aspirations for 'Japanese gay masculinity': comparing Chinese and Japanese men's consumption of porn star Koh Masaki 3. Porn as practice, porn as access: pornography consumption and a 'third sexual orientation' in Japan 4. The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan's rotten women 5. Gold fingers or golden opportunity? Porn stars, sex education, and masculinity in contemporary Japan 6. Jemok eopseum: the repurposing of Tumblr for gay South Korean DIY pornography 7. 'Queering pornography': situating lesbian identity and sexuality in the pornoscape and sexual-scape of Hong Kong 8. 'Good hard fuck' made in China: a case study of Chinese semiprofessionally produced gay porn 9. Smouldering pornographies on the Chinese internet
About the author
Katrien Jacobs is Adjunct Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Research Associate at Ghent University, Belgium. Her work specializes in digital media and sexualities, contemporary art, and activism and can be found at www.katrienjacobs.com
Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Japanese and International Studies in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Languages and Literatures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Dr Baudinette is a cultural anthropologist whose work has explored consumption of popular culture among queer communities in Japan, Mainland China, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Alexandra Hambleton is an Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan. Her work focuses on contemporary Japan with a particular interest in media, gender, and sexuality.
Summary
Pornography’s impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance have been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as audio-visual and online media from an East Asian perspective.
