Abstract
“Idon’t know what it is, but I know it when I see it.” This famous comment on pornography, unttered by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stew-art in 1964, summarizes to date the two main difficulties facing anyone who critically engages with pornography. In his concluding statement of the Jacobellis v. Ohio case, in which the justice defended a movie against censorship, Stewart refers at once to the difficulty of defining the pornographic genre and to the difficulty of talking about films that obviously arouse the viewer.
Pornography fails as a genre if it does not arouse the body.
—Linda Williams, “Second Thoughts on Hard Core”
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© 2014 Sarah Schaschek
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Schaschek, S. (2014). Seductive Seriality. In: Pornography and Seriality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137359384_2
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