Williams described the nature of academic porn analysis, focusing on changes in the field since the late ’80s in the primary context of heterosexual porn. Pornography, she maintains, is no longer “hidden away” but has incrementally become more visible - first in the early 1970s, when it began to show up on movie-theater screens, and on into the present day, where it comes into the home via videocassettes, DVDs, and the Internet. Williams, a pioneer in the field of academic pornography research, spoke about the pervasiveness of moving-image pornography and the accompanying change in the public’s attitude toward that cinematic genre. 30 issue we published the first part of an interview with Linda Williams, professor of rhetoric and film studies and former director of the campus Program in Film Studies.
Kissing, once the sex act for all occasions, is today's foreplay and afterplay, says film-studies professor Linda Williams.įor Linda Williams, screen kisses of the past were less lascivious than today’s, but far more interesting.
