This article describes and interprets the media process that led traditional pornography and its aesthetics to the normalization formats that define it today. The phenomenon is studied through the lens of iconographic documentation from the photographic, cinematographic, and digital realms, using a visual culture- and socio-semiotic-based perspective. The suggested paradigm is observed through fetishist aesthetics that leads, from images representing World War’Is tragedy, to the current “porn culture.” Article sections detail heterogenous scenarios from a media perspective, showing how the twentieth-century convergence of media led to the pornification of daily life and the corresponding watering down of the porn now widely distributed on the web. From Videodrome to Black Mirror and music videos, from Hans Bellmer dolls to the underground cinematography of Richard Kern, all the way to the scatological veins of the darkest part of the web and their artistic facet seen in the 2015 case study by Rupi Kaur, the aestheticization process of porn will be highlighted by suggesting interpretations to understand more deeply the complexity that characterizes the most recent examples of social media: Instagram, Tik Tok, Tumblr.
Pornoculture et fétichisme : œuvres d’art mutilées. Un imaginaire de la chair entre photographie, cinéma, série télévisée et réseaux sociaux
Claudia Attimonelli Petraglione
2022-01-01
Abstract
This article describes and interprets the media process that led traditional pornography and its aesthetics to the normalization formats that define it today. The phenomenon is studied through the lens of iconographic documentation from the photographic, cinematographic, and digital realms, using a visual culture- and socio-semiotic-based perspective. The suggested paradigm is observed through fetishist aesthetics that leads, from images representing World War’Is tragedy, to the current “porn culture.” Article sections detail heterogenous scenarios from a media perspective, showing how the twentieth-century convergence of media led to the pornification of daily life and the corresponding watering down of the porn now widely distributed on the web. From Videodrome to Black Mirror and music videos, from Hans Bellmer dolls to the underground cinematography of Richard Kern, all the way to the scatological veins of the darkest part of the web and their artistic facet seen in the 2015 case study by Rupi Kaur, the aestheticization process of porn will be highlighted by suggesting interpretations to understand more deeply the complexity that characterizes the most recent examples of social media: Instagram, Tik Tok, Tumblr.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
