How long does it take to read Hard Core?
Linda Williams
Hard Core by Linda Williams takes about 6 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 330 pages, about 90,750 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For the 1999 edition, Williams has written a new preface and a new epilogue, "On/scenities," illustrated with 26 photographs, and has added a supplementary bibliography.
Subjects: Pornography, Sex in motion pictures, History and criticism, Erotic films, Pornographic films, Erotic films--history and criticism
