Representational drifts of the pornographical body in the cinematography of Erika Lust

Abstract

Pornography can be placed as a device through which the body is built and exposed with the purpose of regulating social practices and behaviors, prescribing sexuality. The focus of the present article is to discuss body and sexuality representations in three short films, which have been discursively positioned between the alternative-pornographic and the post-pornographic. Based on said representations, this analysis seeks to find the extent to which these audiovisual materials reproduce the regulating discourse of androcentric sexuality, through a comparative analysis with the common representations on mainstream pornography and an observation of the construction of subjects and objects of desire. Furthermore, it enables the discussion pertaining to their political content, and if it would facilitate the exposition of a post-pornographic body, considering the decoding and recoding of sexuality through a pornographic lens, as well as the subjective-erotic gaze.