Open AccessPornographic space-time and the potential of fantasy in comics and fan art
Author(s) -
Lyndsay Brown
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2013.0465
Subject(s) - comics , fantasy , pornography , conversation , pleasure , art , space (punctuation) , aesthetics , visual arts , sociology , literature , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , communication , neuroscience , linguistics
By putting pornographic comics and fan art into conversation, this article contends that works intended to depict and fuel sexual fantasy structure time and space differently with the goal of directly engaging the reader and extending the duration of her pleasure. Further, the comics and pieces of fan art examined herein are produced by, for, and about women and suggest an alternative vision of female desire that challenges contemporary understandings of pornography's utility and functioning as it intersects with fantasy in the private sexual economy