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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, PG
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-20T07:57:40Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-24
dc.description.abstractArt Spiegelman’s underground comic ‘Little Signs of Passion’ (1974) juxtaposes romance comics against hard-core pornographic feature films. In the early 1970s pornography was defended as an expression of moral and artistic freedom but this comic shows that hardcore’s narrative conventions were as standardised and commercially driven as anything in the romance comics. Spiegelman’s text reveals that, despite the diversification of porn film audiences in the early 1970s, the viewing pleasures these films offered remained heavily gendered. And, unlike other underground parodies of the romance comics, Spiegelman does not deride that genre’s conventions but admires their enduring power.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under Grant AH/L00965X/1 and the Eccles Centre at the British Library.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 24 March 2019.en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0950236X.2019.1593235
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/33778
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 24 September 2020 in compliance with publisher policy.en_GB
dc.rights© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
dc.subjectSpiegelmanen_GB
dc.subjectComicsen_GB
dc.subjectComixen_GB
dc.subjectPornographyen_GB
dc.subject1970sen_GB
dc.titleArt Spiegelman’s ‘Little Signs of Passion’ and the Emergence of Hard-Core Pornographic Feature Filmen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn0950-236X
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalTextual Practiceen_GB


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