Beauty and unreality in the new feminist porn: the pornographic image of Erika Lust

This article examines the feminist pornographic films made by the Swedish director Erika Lust. A pioneering cinema that emerges as a rejection of the heteronormativity present in traditional pornographic cinema, accused of reflecting only exclusive male fantasies. This new feminist cinema is characterized by constructing narratives that go beyond mere sexual act, showing different types of sexualities, and giving prominence to the woman as an active subject. A cinema that is also characterized by a constant aesthetic search through various cinematographic resources in order to create a beautiful work. From the study of the stylistic features of Lust's series of short films X-Confessions, the content of this type of films is questioned, because despite being well made in cinematographic terms, are far from achieving its objective of offering a natural portrait of sex. Ending up in implementing a new fantasy as a result of the constant search for beauty. All of this in opposition to the phenomenon of the amateur or gonzo cinema, true documentary of the sexual act that does not require of any fiction, although it may contain it, to elaborate its discourse of naturalness and to show its pornographic object.

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