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ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE PORN INDUSTRY TO BE OFFERED FREE TO
COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN RESPONSE TO MARYLAND CONTROVERSY
For Immediate Release
For further information contact Dr. Chyng Sun
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April 8, 2009 -- The way filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker see it,
the cure for bad speech is more speech. That's exactly why they've come
up with a plan to get their hard-hitting documentary film about the porn
industry screened on as many college campuses as possible.
In response to the national controversy surrounding the screening of a
hardcore porn film at the University of Maryland this week, Sun and
Picker have cut a deal with their distributor to do exactly what Digital
Playground, the makers of the porn film in question, are doing with
their film: make it available at no charge to any campus that wants to
show it.
"This is a great opportunity for this film to reach a wider audience,"
Sun, a professor of media at New York University, said of her
documentary, The Price of Pleasure
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college students were our target audience going in. We did numerous
focus groups to find the right tone and approach to speak to them."
The Media Education Foundation (MEF), one of the nation's leading
distributors of educational films on media and social and cultural
issues, has announced that it will send a free copy of Sun and Picker's
devastating expose of the porn industry to faculty and students who are
willing to screen the documentary on their campus.
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Pleasure to visit http://www.mediaed.org/wp/price-of-pleasure-press
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"The reason we're making this film available to screen for free is
simple," said MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally. "What's needed on this
issue is more discussion, not less, and this film is a perfect vehicle
for achieving this. If faculty and students who supported the decision
to show the porn film at the University of Maryland are serious about
their defense of free speech and open debate, they'll fight to make sure
this documentary is shown as well."
The firestorm at the University of Maryland ignited when students
decided this week to screen a $10 million-dollar, 2 1/2-hour hardcore
porn film called Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, which is being offered
to campuses around the country for free by Digital Playground as part of
an innovative marketing strategy. When state legislators tried to stop
the screening, students on the College Park campus fought back, claiming
their free speech rights were being threatened by overly moralistic
politicians.
According to University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen, who
is featured in The Price of Pleasure, one of the central aims of the
documentary is to move the debate about pornography beyond precisely
these kinds of predictable, and distracting, arguments about morality
and free speech.
"The film tries to move the discussion beyond a clash between a rigidly
moralistic position and the irresponsibly individualistic free-speech
response we hear so often whenever the issue of pornography comes up,"
Jensen said. "Instead of asking important questions about what a
relentlessly sexist and routinely racist pornography genre says about
our culture, conservatives try to assert control and liberals try to
assert independence. Complex questions about contemporary pornography
are too often derailed by a debate that never gets past First Amendment
arguments."
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look at pornography itself, placing the voices of producers, performers,
industry critics, and anti-porn activists alongside candid observations
from men and women about the role pornography has played in their lives.
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Praise for the film:
"When we discuss pornography in my classes, we always begin with what
seem to the wrong conversations -- the actress's choices; no harm, no
foul; being pro-porn is just being pro-sex; men don't have to be rapists
to like it -- always defensive and dishonest. I've been waiting for a
film that was neither sanctimoniously scolding nor callously
celebratory. And finally, there is The Price of Pleasure -- a film to
help us really "see" what we have been looking at, and to enable us,
finally, to talk about how pornography informs our actual lives. It's
powerful, and I will use it immediately in my classes."
- Michael Kimmel | Professor of Sociology | SUNY Stony Brook
"An intense, powerful documentary that will open up painful but
necessary discussions about pornography's role in shaping our
identities, our relationships, and our culture."
- Rebecca Whisnant | Associate Professor of Philosophy | Director of
Women's and Gender Studies | University of Dayton
"With original research, footage of popular pornographic films, insights
from academic experts, interviews with sex workers and even
pornographers, The Price of Pleasure educates viewers about the
prevalence and increasingly violent content of contemporary pornography.
Advocates of sexual freedom, as well as activists committed to ending
sexual exploitation against women, find common cause in Chyng Sun's
compelling argument: contemporary pornographic films illustrate
conventional, not deviant, attitudes about women's sexuality. Viewer
alert: gazing through the pornographic worldview will turn your stomach.
Eat lightly before you watch this!"
- Bernadette Barton | Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's
Studies | Morehead State University | Author of Stripped: Inside the
Lives of Exotic Dancers
"Deeply disturbing but profoundly important."
- Jean Kilbourne | Creator, Killing Us Softly 3 | Author, So Sexy So
Soon
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