David Church

Porno Cultures Podcast

Professor David Church joins us to talk about his newest book Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (2016). His approach to pornography produced in the age when moving image technology was just emerging to the beginning of the “porno chic” era, is unique in the sense that he writes about how these older texts are consumed, admired, and fetishized within our contemporary mediascape. He does this by analyzing the affective resonance that these texts take on as they circulate via digital platforms today. This is a compelling way to think about porn’s history, and I think it could become a model for the way future historians go about formulating media histories as they are experienced today. In this interview, David talks to us about the role nostalgia plays in our erotic imagination, how our understanding of pornography changes when it transforms from being an object of erotic stimulation to a historical text, and explains cinephilia’s connection to necrophilia.

More information about Disposable Passions can be found here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disposable-passions-9781501307539/

More of Professor Church’s writing can be found here: https://nau.academia.edu/DavidChurch

Some online sites where you can find vintage texts:

http://retrovintageerotica.com/

http://www.theclassicporn.com/

https://www.vintageclassicporn.com/

http://www.porninspector.com/reviews/category/vintage/

pornocultures.podomatic.com

facebook.com/AcademicSex

@PornoCultures

https://concordia.academia.edu/brandrroyo