Immediacy and Film Censorship

Bolster, David Jay and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT P., 2000:
99-112.

Bolster and Grusin make a cool point about immediacy and censorship when they state: "Books are not censored as strictly as film and television because for our visual culture the written world does not have the immediacy that a moving picture has" (99). So while pornographic novels may fall just under the radar of cultural scrutiny, when it comes to photographs, which attempt to mimic the real, "the cultural line is clearly crossed" (99). Moreover, the idea that because movies and television are "photographs in motion" (99), explains why pornographic film and photography is deemed scanty. It seems to me that the immediacy of the photos and film is what alters the cultural acceptation and reception of erotica.; nonetheless, it is all a remediation of what came before; pornographic flip- books, now that's techno-savvy :).