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[Commlist] New book: The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media

Thu Feb 05 19:21:05 GMT 2026





Intellect is pleased to share that /The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media <https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-intellect-handbook-of-adult-film-and-media>/, edited by Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty and Darshana Sreedhar Mini, is out in hardback.

The essential guide to adult film and media studies, combining historical insight, critical theory, and global perspectives for scholars, educators, and students alike. /The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media/ brings together 36 chapters organized into six sections, spanning historical and methodological approaches, issues of representation and production, spectatorship, transnational perspectives, and questions of law, health, and policy—offering a comprehensive survey of this growing field. Written by leading scholars, the volume examines sexually explicit media in its full context: its production, circulation, consumption, and reception. Engaging with a wide body of scholarship, the essays outline key literature, major historical developments, and central theoretical debates that advance adult film and media studies as a legitimate area of academic inquiry. Designed as both a reference and teaching resource, the handbook will be invaluable to scholars and educators in film, media, gender, sexuality, and porn studies.

*Part of the Intellect Handbooks <https://www.intellectbooks.com/intellect-handbooks> collection.
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*_Table of Contents
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*List of Figures*
*Introduction* – /Peter Alilunas, Patrick Keilty, Darshana Sreedhar Mini/
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*SECTION I: HISTORY
1.* History of Early Adult Film – /David Church/
*2.*  Adult Movies and Small Gauge Films /– Dan Erdman/
*3.* Producing Sexploitation: Two Case Studies – /Eric Schaefer/
*4.* The Golden Age – /Laura Helen Marks/
*5.* Adult Movies Theaters – /Whitney Strub/
*6.* The Boob Tube: Tracking Pornhub’s Emergence – /Becky Holt/
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*SECTION II: METHODOLOGIES AND PEDAGOGIES/
/7.* Theories of Sex, Sexuality, and Historiography in Adult Film History – /Brandon Arroyo/
*8.* Methods for Adult Film Studies – /Daniel Laurin/
*9.* Porn and Sex Education: Realism, Patriarchy, and the Orgasm Gap – /Alan McKee, Emma Phillips, Pavla Nováková/
*10. *The Teacher: A Conversation with Constance Penley – /Peter Alilunas/
*11.* An Archive of Pornographies & The Pornography of ‘The Archive’ – /B.M. Watson/ *12.* Fantasy: Genre Conventions, Political Correctness, and Queer and Feminist Representational Strategies in the Erotic Film – /Nikola Stepić/
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*SECTION III: REPRESENTATIONS//*
*13.* Bisexual Male Hardcore Film and Video – /Kevin Heffernan/
*14.* History of U.S. Trans Pornography – /Sophie Pezzutto/
*15.* An Interview with Ariane Cruz – /Marilia Kaisar/
*16.* Latinxxx Pornography – /Yessica Garcia Hernandez/
*17.* "Organic, Fair Trade": The Politics of Feminist Pornography' – /Jennifer Moorman/
*18.* Gay Pornography – /Nguyễn Tân Hoàng/
*19.* Flaunting, Flourishing, and Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Queercrip Porn – /Loree Erickson/ *20.* Asian American Representations in Pornography – /Shawn Suyong Yi Jones/
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*SECTION IV: PRODUCTION, SPECTATORSHIP, AND DISTRIBUTION/
/21.* Adult Film Labor – /Kevin John Bozelka/
*22.* Sex Stores – /Lynn Comella/
*23.* Pornography Platforms – /Maggie MacDonald/
*24.* Webcamming – /Hanne Stegeman/
*25.* The Internet is for Porn – /Patrick Keilty/
*26.* In a Sea of Dicks: On the Limits of Porn – /Susanna Paasonen/
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*SECTION V: AREA STUDIES AND TRANSNATIONALISM/
/27.* The Porn-Brokers: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Western Europe’s Pornography Trade – /Oliver Carter/ *28.* Pornography in Southeast Asia: Issues, Challenges, and Possibilities – /Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao/ *29.* Pornography in Latin America –/ Victoria Ruétalo, Ana Paula Magalhães Da Silva/
*30.* Porn in/and Africa – /Jordache A. Ellapen/
*31.* South Asian Pornographies – /Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Anirban Baishya
/*32.* East Asian Pornographies and Conversation Pieces at the Hong Kong Porn Seminar – /Katrien Jacobs/
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*SECTION VI: LAW, HEALTH, POLICY, AND THE STATE/
/33.* Regulating Pornography – /Brenda Cossman/
*34.* Porn Health: Occupational and Community Approaches – /Val Webber/
*35.* Feminism and Pornography – /Carolyn Bronstein/
*36. *Porn Panics – /Rebecca Sullivan/
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Contributor Biographies
Index*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/the-intellect-handbook-of-adult-film-and-media<http://www.intellectbooks.com/the-intellect-handbook-of-adult-film-and-media>

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