Giovanna Maina
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4140597 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Giovanna Maina |
| PRENOMES | Giovanna |
| SOBRENOME | Maina |
| ASSINATURA | MAINA G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7873-7799 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Margins and extremes
This special issue approaches pornography—particularly socalled ‘extreme pornography’—as a privileged site for examining the shifting relations between visibility and power, representation and transgression. By tracing the repressed or subordinated textual and social meanings that both characterize and emanate from extreme pornographies across different historical and geographical contexts, the essays gathered here explore the micropolitics of th…
The evolution of porn studies at Gorizia Spring School
The animal that therefore I fuck
The purpose of this article is to establish a heuristic relationship between porn studies and animality studies. Using specific pornographic genres and subgenres as an analytical starting point, we will draw on the notion of animality to explore the deep epistemic scheme that informs contemporary hardcore production, and some of the forms of subjectivity that it articulates and re-produces within this scheme. More specifically, this article seeks…
When did ‘the true king of hardcore’ start to cry? Investigating Rocco Siffredi’s stardom
With a career in the adult industry spanning 40 years, Rocco Siffredi is undoubtedly one of the most important male porn stars to date. Despite his undoubted importance, however, he has not been the subject of extensive research in the fields of porn studies and adult film history. This article is intended to be the first step in a long-term research project dedicated to the Italian porn star. Combining reflections on the cultural positioning of …
Turn on the red light
The 1960s and early 1970s definitely saw the generalized eroticization of Italian media; however, approximately from the second half of the 1970s, the sexualization of the mediascape was taken to its furthest extent, as the boundaries of explicit representation were broken and pushed from softcore towards hardcore. Through an exploration of the Italian adult press of the time and through an examination of the phenomenon of the ‘hardcore versions’…
(Feminist) Academic Friendships
In this collaborative piece, originated from a series of conversations between the authors, we reflect on our friendship as a form of peer-to-peer mentorship and as an experience of informal collaboration. Drawing from our academic relationship, the article also makes some broader considerations on the meanings and potentials of academic friendships and how they offer an unvaluable source of mutual and self-care in the context of neoliberal acade…
Conceptualizing, researching and writing about pornography
Despite an ongoing incitement to speak about sex (Foucault 1990), the way we are encouraged to talk and write about sexual issues is strongly policed and ways of conceptualizing and researching the
Harder than fiction
This article reads gonzo pornography as a stylistic model, in order to go beyond current interpretations that see it as either a genre merely based on degrading sexual practices or a filmmaking form primarily based on the active role of the camera. Drawing on theoretical notions derived from cinema and media studies, we analyze the stylistic model of gonzo according to four different (albeit interrelated) dimensions: representative/performative; …
John Stagliano interviewed by Giovanna Maina and Federico Zecca
Stagliano has proved to be an innovative porn entrepreneur. Created during the 1990s, his studio Evil Angel was definitely ahead of its time, founded on principles including ‘branding’ – conceived as a pact between producer and consumer – which were uncommon in the pornographic industry at the time, offering a ‘guarantee’ of particular kinds of content and standard of quality. Furthermore, the idea of bringing together different directors and pro…
Introduction to the issue
Our last issue of 2015 includes articles that range across public sex performance in Amsterdam, sexting, microporn, the mandating of condom use in some North American pornography, and the use of po
After The Feminist Porn Book
Giovanna MainaUniversity of Sunderland, UK
Grotesque Empowerment Belladonna’s Strapped Dykes entre mainstream et queer
Conceptualizing, researching and writing about pornography
Despite an ongoing incitement to speak about sex (Foucault 1990), the way we are encouraged to talk and write about sexual issues is strongly policed and ways of conceptualizing and researching the
John Stagliano interviewed by Giovanna Maina and Federico Zecca
Stagliano has proved to be an innovative porn entrepreneur. Created during the 1990s, his studio Evil Angel was definitely ahead of its time, founded on principles including ‘branding’ – conceived as a pact between producer and consumer – which were uncommon in the pornographic industry at the time, offering a ‘guarantee’ of particular kinds of content and standard of quality. Furthermore, the idea of bringing together different directors and pro…
(Feminist) Academic Friendships
In this collaborative piece, originated from a series of conversations between the authors, we reflect on our friendship as a form of peer-to-peer mentorship and as an experience of informal collaboration. Drawing from our academic relationship, the article also makes some broader considerations on the meanings and potentials of academic friendships and how they offer an unvaluable source of mutual and self-care in the context of neoliberal acade…
After The Feminist Porn Book
Giovanna MainaUniversity of Sunderland, UK
Grotesque Empowerment Belladonna’s Strapped Dykes entre mainstream et queer
After The Feminist Porn Book
Giovanna MainaUniversity of Sunderland, UK
Introduction to the issue
Our last issue of 2015 includes articles that range across public sex performance in Amsterdam, sexting, microporn, the mandating of condom use in some North American pornography, and the use of po
Harder than fiction
This article reads gonzo pornography as a stylistic model, in order to go beyond current interpretations that see it as either a genre merely based on degrading sexual practices or a filmmaking form primarily based on the active role of the camera. Drawing on theoretical notions derived from cinema and media studies, we analyze the stylistic model of gonzo according to four different (albeit interrelated) dimensions: representative/performative; …
John Stagliano interviewed by Giovanna Maina and Federico Zecca
Stagliano has proved to be an innovative porn entrepreneur. Created during the 1990s, his studio Evil Angel was definitely ahead of its time, founded on principles including ‘branding’ – conceived as a pact between producer and consumer – which were uncommon in the pornographic industry at the time, offering a ‘guarantee’ of particular kinds of content and standard of quality. Furthermore, the idea of bringing together different directors and pro…
Conceptualizing, researching and writing about pornography
Despite an ongoing incitement to speak about sex (Foucault 1990), the way we are encouraged to talk and write about sexual issues is strongly policed and ways of conceptualizing and researching the
Turn on the red light
The 1960s and early 1970s definitely saw the generalized eroticization of Italian media; however, approximately from the second half of the 1970s, the sexualization of the mediascape was taken to its furthest extent, as the boundaries of explicit representation were broken and pushed from softcore towards hardcore. Through an exploration of the Italian adult press of the time and through an examination of the phenomenon of the ‘hardcore versions’…
(Feminist) Academic Friendships
In this collaborative piece, originated from a series of conversations between the authors, we reflect on our friendship as a form of peer-to-peer mentorship and as an experience of informal collaboration. Drawing from our academic relationship, the article also makes some broader considerations on the meanings and potentials of academic friendships and how they offer an unvaluable source of mutual and self-care in the context of neoliberal acade…
The evolution of porn studies at Gorizia Spring School
The animal that therefore I fuck
The purpose of this article is to establish a heuristic relationship between porn studies and animality studies. Using specific pornographic genres and subgenres as an analytical starting point, we will draw on the notion of animality to explore the deep epistemic scheme that informs contemporary hardcore production, and some of the forms of subjectivity that it articulates and re-produces within this scheme. More specifically, this article seeks…
When did ‘the true king of hardcore’ start to cry? Investigating Rocco Siffredi’s stardom
With a career in the adult industry spanning 40 years, Rocco Siffredi is undoubtedly one of the most important male porn stars to date. Despite his undoubted importance, however, he has not been the subject of extensive research in the fields of porn studies and adult film history. This article is intended to be the first step in a long-term research project dedicated to the Italian porn star. Combining reflections on the cultural positioning of …
Margins and extremes
This special issue approaches pornography—particularly socalled ‘extreme pornography’—as a privileged site for examining the shifting relations between visibility and power, representation and transgression. By tracing the repressed or subordinated textual and social meanings that both characterize and emanate from extreme pornographies across different historical and geographical contexts, the essays gathered here explore the micropolitics of th…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Pornography (5 obras) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)