the.pornography.of.everyday.life.2006.dvdrip.xvid.avi

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Length 34 minutes

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upPWEwJwn2M

This trenchant and provocative documentary essay will generate
thought, analysis, and discussion in a wide variety of courses in
women's and gender studies, psychology, sociology, and popular
culture. It incorporates more than 200 powerful images from
advertising, ancient myth, contemporary art, and popular culture to
demonstrate how pornography (defined as the sexualized domination,
degradation, and objectification of women and girls and social groups
who are put in the demeaned feminine role) is in reality a prevalent
mainstream worldview.

The film illustrates how the pornographic worldview is a generally
accepted discourse, a habitual mode of thinking and acting that
underpins not only sexism, but also racism, militarism, physical
abuse and torture, and the pillaging of the environment. As such,
pornography appears not only in overt, "hard-core" forms, but also in
virtually every aspect of everyday life.

As the film illuminates, even though pornography is generally thought
to be the opposite of religion, it actually is an irrational belief
system analogous to a religion. Like much patriarchal religious
tradition, pornography is shown to be misogynistic and homophobic,
and defines sex as "dirty" or debased and the opposite of the mind or
spirit.

Pornography is also shown to support the worst tendencies of
patriarchal religions by appropriating previously sacred and potent
images of women, sex, goddesses, and the feminine principle,
colloquially known as Mother Earth or Mother Nature, and then
ritually profaning and defaming them. This works not only to demean
women but to justify and legitimize male divinity and worldly
authority.

The film concludes by suggesting alternatives and by illustrating how
visionary thinkers and artists resist the pornographic worldview by
re-imagining and restoring respect to eroticism, female sexuality,
and the female divine, and by calling for new understandings of
sexuality, nature, and society.

The Pornography of Everyday Life is a superb and invigorating
cultural exploration that will stir thought and engender classroom
debate. It was written by and features Jane Caputi, Prof. of Women's
Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and produced by award-winning
filmmaker Susan Rosenkranz.

*I have not watched this one yet