SCPS Film Screening:"The Price of Pleasure"

SCPS Media Studies Professor Chyng Sun To Host Discussion and Screening on March 6 at United Nations

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will be holding a screening of New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies Professor Chyng Sun’s film The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships (2008, 55 mins) on March 6, 2009, at 4pm, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, NYC.  A Q&A session with Dr. Chyng Sun and reception will follow the screening. 
 

WHAT:    Film Screening and Discussion - The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships, directed and produced by Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker; co-written with Robert Wosnitzer

WHO:      Chyng Sun, NYU SCPS filmmaker and media studies professor

WHEN:    March 6, 2009, 4 p.m.

WHERE:  777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, NYC 

For more information, please call 212.998.6876 or email christopher.james@nyu.edu.
 

The Price of Pleasure (http://thepriceofpleasure.com/) features interviews with scholars of mass media, economics, and psychology; writers on pornography and popular culture; producers and performers from the porn industry; and a former stripper/porn performer-turned-author.  The film paints both a nuanced and complex portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in the most intimate aspects of human relations.  The film was funded in part by the New York University Research Challenge Fund in 2005.

Filmmaker Chyng Sun is a master teacher of media studies at SCPS’s McGhee Division. Her research interests include media literacy; race, gender and sexuality in media; and audience research/media effects. With co-writer Robert Wosnitzer, Sun has designed a large-scale research project on the content of the most-rented pornographic movies of 2005, the subject of a forthcoming book.