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INTERCONNECTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC AND EROTIC DESPONDENCY

INTERCONNECTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC AND EROTIC DESPONDENCY

2011

Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata September 12, 2011 14:00

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INTERCONNECTION OF PORNOGRAPHIC AND EROTIC DESPONDENCY

Sexuality in film may have raised more questions on boundaries between pornography and eroticism as an artistic expression than the complete history of sexuality in its various forms before the age of film. In addition to the popular and mass-media nature of film, its inclination towards real, substantial representation of the outside world provoked discussions on the boundaries and distinctions of the stripped image, ordinarily existing in the dark of personal spaces of hidden reality. Sexuality is the most primal human urge; as such it forms an inseparable part of cultural identities, being shrouded by a veil of censorship it has only recently stepped into the light, safe from prohibition. Postmodern thought brings a time of sexual exhibitionism, the era marked by the motto “sex sells”. If sexuality is indeed subject to social norms, does it mean that the social norms have released their established brakes? Contemporary, networked images of the most intimate spots of privacy give sepia toning of cinematic history to the entire consideration of filmic presentation of erotic and pornographic reality.