Girls Gone Wild: Porn or Pop Culture?

Location

CSU 204

Start Date

24-4-2007 10:30 AM

End Date

24-4-2007 12:30 PM

Student's Major

Gender and Women's Studies

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Mentor's Department

Gender and Women's Studies

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

Since its creation in 1997, Mantra Films Inc. has become most popular for its film series "Girls Gone Wild." Citing exponential brand growth each year since 1997, Mantra Films Inc. productions flirt with the line between popular culture and soft core pornography. Bodies of knowledge consulted include feminist definitions of pornography, history and analysis of film and filmmaking, and general contexts of modem popular culture, especially as it relates to girls' so-called empowerment through exhibitionism. Data was gathered by means of visual content analysis of actual "Girls Gone Wild" films. Films were viewed in their entirety before being subjected to coding for analysis. Results indicate that the "Girls Gone Wild" films are in fact pornography. Further analysis indicates that these films are successful due to being made within the context of a society which embraces pornography into its popular culture. From these results connections were made on how this study relates to feminist study of pornography and popular culture.

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Apr 24th, 10:30 AM Apr 24th, 12:30 PM

Girls Gone Wild: Porn or Pop Culture?

CSU 204

Since its creation in 1997, Mantra Films Inc. has become most popular for its film series "Girls Gone Wild." Citing exponential brand growth each year since 1997, Mantra Films Inc. productions flirt with the line between popular culture and soft core pornography. Bodies of knowledge consulted include feminist definitions of pornography, history and analysis of film and filmmaking, and general contexts of modem popular culture, especially as it relates to girls' so-called empowerment through exhibitionism. Data was gathered by means of visual content analysis of actual "Girls Gone Wild" films. Films were viewed in their entirety before being subjected to coding for analysis. Results indicate that the "Girls Gone Wild" films are in fact pornography. Further analysis indicates that these films are successful due to being made within the context of a society which embraces pornography into its popular culture. From these results connections were made on how this study relates to feminist study of pornography and popular culture.

Recommended Citation

Trytten, Kelly. "Girls Gone Wild: Porn or Pop Culture?." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 24, 2007.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2007/oral-session-13/2