Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media

Peter Alilunas is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016, University of California Press). His work has appeared in Film History; Camera Obscura; Television and New Media; JCMS; and Porn Studies, where he is a member of the editorial board. He is the co-editor with Whitney Strub of ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023, Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and the co-editor of Screening Adult Cinema (2025, Routledge), with Desiree Embree and Finley Freibert.Patrick Keilty is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the politics of digital infrastructures in the sex industries, adult film, and the materiality of sexual media. His writing and editorial work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies; Information Society; Journal of Documentation; Porn Studies; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Scholar and Feminist Online; Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader (Litwin Books, 2013); Uncertain Archives (MIT Press, 2021); Queer Data Studies (University of Washington Press, 2023); and elsewhere.Darshana Sreedhar Mini is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India (UC Press,2024) and co-editor ofSouth Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissibleand the Obscene (Routledge, 2024).

“This outstandingly rich and wide-ranging collection with many key voices in adult film and media studies highlights the significance of an often misunderstood and maligned arena of media production, unravelling its complex histories and contemporary manifestations with clarity and precision. In its diverse explorations of adult media, from early stag films to online porn, it tracks production, exhibition, and circulation, labour networks, representation, regulation, and expanding global forms––making for a terrific teaching resource. These illuminating and inspiring essays provide an essential and timely tool kit for understanding sexually explicit media in the twenty-first century.”

• List of FiguresIntroduction – Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, Darshana Sreedhar MiniSECTION I: HISTORY1. History of Early Adult Film – David Church2.  Adult Movies and Small Gauge Films – Dan Erdman3. Producing Sexploitation: Two Case Studies – Eric Schaefer4. The Golden Age – Laura Helen Marks5. Adult Movies Theaters – Whitney Strub6. The Boob Tube: Tracking Pornhub’s Emergence – Becky Holt SECTION II: METHODOLOGIES AND PEDAGOGIES7. Theories of Sex, Sexuality, and Historiography in Adult Film History – Brandon Arroyo8. Methods for Adult Film Studies – Daniel Laurin9. Porn and Sex Education: Realism, Patriarchy, and the Orgasm Gap – Alan McKee, Emma Phillips, Pavla Nováková10. The Teacher: A Conversation with Constance Penley – Peter Alilunas11. An Archive of Pornographies & The Pornography of ‘The Archive’ – B.M. Watson12. Fantasy: Genre Conventions, Political Correctness, and Queer and Feminist Representational Strategies in the Erotic Film – Nikola Stepić SECTION III: REPRESENTATIONS13. Bisexual Male Hardcore Film and Video – Kevin Heffernan14. History of U.S. Trans Pornography – Sophie Pezzutto15. An Interview with Ariane Cruz – Marilia Kaisar16. Latinxxx Pornography – Yessica Garcia Hernandez17. "Organic, Fair Trade": The Politics of Feminist Pornography' – Jennifer Moorman18. Gay Pornography – Nguyễn Tân Hoàng19. Flaunting, Flourishing, and Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Queercrip Porn – Loree Erickson20. Asian American Representations in Pornography – Shawn Suyong Yi Jones SECTION IV: PRODUCTION, SPECTATORSHIP, AND DISTRIBUTION21. Adult Film Labor – Kevin John Bozelka22. Sex Stores – Lynn Comella23. Pornography Platforms – Maggie MacDonald24. Webcamming – Hanne Stegeman25. The Internet is for Porn – Patrick Keilty26. In a Sea of Dicks: On the Limits of Porn – Susanna Paasonen SECTION V: AREA STUDIES AND TRANSNATIONALISM27. The Porn-Brokers: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Western Europe’s Pornography Trade – Oliver Carter28. Pornography in Southeast Asia: Issues, Challenges, and Possibilities – Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao29. Pornography in Latin America – Victoria Ruétalo, Ana Paula Magalhães Da Silva  30. Porn in/and Africa – Jordache A. Ellapen31. South Asian Pornographies – Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Anirban Baishya32. East Asian Pornographies and Conversation Pieces at the Hong Kong Porn Seminar – Katrien Jacobs SECTION VI: LAW, HEALTH, POLICY, AND THE STATE33. Regulating Pornography – Brenda Cossman34. Porn Health: Occupational and Community Approaches – Val Webber35. Feminism and Pornography – Carolyn Bronstein36. Porn Panics – Rebecca SullivanContributor BiographiesIndex