Active Pornographic Space and Sexual Affect in the Networked Gay Village, an essay by Film and Moving Image Studies PhD student Brandon Arroyo, was awarded a third place finish in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Student Writing Competition.
Arroyo's creative essay uses Montreal's Gay Village to analyze how the imbrication of various media, screens, displays, and experiences create affective assemblages that are typical of new modes of pornographic production, distribution, and consumption. This networked pornographic space renegotiates relationships between public and private, professional and amateur, and fantasy and reality. With this framework and analysis, this essay makes a useful intervention into porn studies that takes into account spatial and sexual reconfigurations in the age of the Internet and within the broader context of neoliberal society.
Alumnus Paul Monticone (MA 10) took first place for his piece on associate professor's Haidee Wasson's Useful Cinema.
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) is an organization dedicated to the scholarly study of film, television, and video.
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