Filmerotik

Film erotica is more than just the representation of sexuality within the framework of the cultural industry - it unfolds its own political aesthetics. Hannah Peuker systematically examines this for the first time through the intertwining of film studies, philosophy, and aesthetic theory: as a bodily technique between desire and censorship, as a sensual montage, and as a structure of experience beyond pornography. The volume illustrates, through a transnational comparison of erotic films from the 1970s - from the Brazilian pornochanchada to the Japanese pinku eiga and the Italian sexy comedy - how societal conflicts, authoritarian regimes, and political upheavals are inscribed in cinematic desire.

Hannah Peuker, born in 1993, is a research associate at the Chair of Film Studies at the Institute of Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. She earned her doctorate at the DFG Graduate School 'Media Anthropology' at Bauhaus University Weimar. Her research focuses on film historiography and philosophy, aesthetic theory, transnational cultural analysis, and affect theory.