Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, Vice-Chair of the European Popular Culture Association, and Principal Editor of the refereed journal Film, Fashion & Consumption. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, and heritage over the last 25 years. Her books include Dirty Looks: Women, Power, Pornography (BFI, 1993), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998, with John Hill), Fashion Cultures (2001, with Stella Bruzzi), More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography (BFI, 2004), Fashion and Celebrity Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations, Analysis (2013).

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• Editor's Preface Pam Church Gibson Foreword: So You Want to Teach Pornography?.- Henry Jenkins.- NEW CONTRIBUTIONS Edward Buscombe.- Generic Overspill: 'A Dirty Western' Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo.- The eWorldi of All Male Pornography: On the Public Place of Moving Image Sex in the Era of Pornographic Transnationalism. Richard Dyer.- Idol Thoughts : Orgasm & Self-Reflexivity in Gay Pornography Jane Gaines.- Machines That Make the Body Do Things Stacy Gillis Cybersexual/Cybertextual: Pornography and Embodiment in Cyberspace Jane Juffer.- There's No Place Like Home: Further Developments on the Domestic Front Chuck Kleinhans.- Virtual Child Porn: The Law and the Semiotics of the Image Royce Mahawatte.- Loving the Asian: Race, Gay Pornography and the Essentials of Passion Alistair O'Neill Only the Literal: The Contradictions of Anti-Pornography Feminism Hard-Edged in Full Colour: Taste-Making Made Easier Amy Villarejo.- Defycategory.Com: Or the Places of Categories in Intermedia Paul Willemen.- For a Pornscape FROM THE FIRST EDITION Laura Kipnis.- She-Male Fantasies and the Aesthetics of Pornography Gertrude Koch The Body's Shadow Realm Liz Kotz.- Complicity: Women Artist's Investigating Masculinity Anne McClintock.- Maid to Order: Commercial S/M and Gender Power Lynda Nead.- 'Above the pulp-line' : The Cultural Significance of Erotic Art Chris Straayer.- The Seduction of Boundaries: Feminist Fluidity in Annie Sprinkle's Art/Education/Sex Jennifer Wicke.- Through a Glass Darkly: Pornography's Academic Market Linda Williams.- Second Thoughts on Hard Core: American Obscenity Law and Scapegoating of Deviance.- Index.