Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

From: Film International | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Steve Neale (ed) Genre and Contemporary Hollywood London: BFI 2002

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITIONS. A: The genre of fat porn may be thought of as an act of defiance, transgression, and perhaps even social critique of a culture bent on promoting the desire for the slim body as "normal". B: Fat porn may be distinguished by its iconography of obese bodies, and although such bodies appear in early stag films, fat porn is not used as a genre concept referring to a subgenre under the general heading of "bizarre" pornography until in the 1970s.

Now, which of these propositions (if any) starts to ...

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