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Kvenna-klám

Athyglisverð grein í NYT frá liðinni viku, What Women Want to Watch, fjallar um erótískt sjónvarpsefni fyrir konur.

Mr. Graff and Ms. Holland began gathering their friends for informal focus groups and learned that they had been overlooking some very big concerns. "It turned out art direction was incredibly important," Mr. Graff says. "From the headboards to shoes to his haircut, her haircut, everything that was in the room was being closely examined — whether or not her nails were done, whether or not the bedspread was pretty. `Why is she wearing those shoes?' was a big thing. Not why was she wearing shoes or not wearing shoes, but why is she wearing those shoes? Shoes were like — a big deal."

Umræddur Mark Graff er stofnandi Playgirl TV, sem er fullorðinsstöð stíluð inn á konur. Hann rak áður sjónvarpsstöð í samkeppni við m.a. Playboy sjónvarpsstöðina og komst að því þegar útsendingar hófust um miðjan daginn, í stað 10 á kvöldin, að áskriftum fjölgaði mikið. "It couldn't all be out-of-work truckers. It had to be a lot of housewives" útskýrir hann. Hann ákvað því að stofna áðurnefnda Playgirl TV.

Like most pornographic movies, they feature pat scenarios: a woman alone with the man behind the counter in a diner after hours; a woman making moves on the guy at the grocery store. But some differences are striking: the female actresses look a lot more like real people, with normal, natural bodies, than like porn stars. There are fewer close-ups on actual genital contact (in one, there's almost none). To eliminate awkward, off-putting dialogue, the characters interact very little before they make physical contact. The attention to detail shows up in the short but manicured nails, the hand-stitched lingerie and the specificity of the wardrobe: for a scene set in a 50's diner, a vintage dress was brought in from a Los Angeles wardrobe shop. Although Mr. Graff would not give specifics on budget, he says the cost of the average Playgirl film is higher than the cost of his old Spice productions. "Those shoes are expensive," he explains.

M.ö.o. er meginniðurstaðan sú að konurnar vilja fyrst og síðast vandaðari búninga, fallegri undirföt - og auðvitað "eðlilegra" kynlíf. Söguþráður flækist hinsvegar bara fyrir og er leikurunum ofviða.

"What makes people blush is also the bad community theater acting, the tripping-over-the-stairs amateur thing that goes on. These actors aren't Strasberg-trained — they're sex performers. Rather than try to get them to do something they don't do with these elaborate scenes, we thought we'd just add a little more context instead."

Vandamálið er hinsvegar að framleiðsla á kvenna-klámi er dýrari en karla-klámi. Vanda þarf til verks fyrir konurnar - og passa upp á að nota réttu skóna!
Agust skrifaði 04.09.04 14:25

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