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Analog Video, its “Pornographic Years” and Video in Turkey
Abstract
The adult film industry, a pioneer in using new technologies, quickly adopted analog video before becoming a mainstream audio-visual medium. Mutual affinity benefits both parties: transforming industry practices, aesthetics, and content, technology contributes to the industry with more significant profit and meets the demands of porn regulars. In return, pornography helps the new technology become widespread by providing distribution networks, content, motivation, and eager users. This paper aims to examine the role of pornography and the adult film industry in the rise of video recorders and analyze some examples regarding the video case in Turkey. Although the data collected from 1980s newspapers and magazines as part of the dissertation about video spectatorship in Turkey doesn’t reveal this role first-hand, there is a bond between technology and pornography. The collective viewing of video films in public space, a unique practice in Turkey, challenges the pornography-intimacy relationship and the need to own a device.
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Primary Language
Turkish
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Aslı Gön
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0000-0003-1036-2673
Türkiye
Publication Date
June 27, 2022
Submission Date
February 4, 2022
Acceptance Date
June 16, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Number: 36

