title: Secret Sins of the Heart: Freedom from the Chains of Pornography
author: David A. Wagner
description: "This is a good book by a good writer about a horrendous problem. It is important to read." -- <i>Tony Campolo-Oct. 1,2001</i>
zlib_text: jsca 10 (1) pp. 67–83  Intellect Limited 2020
  journal of scandinavian cinema
  Volume 10 Number 1
  © 2020 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00014_1
  www.intellectbooks.com  67
  ABSTRACT
  Labelled as ‘new extreme’, Ett hål i mitt hjärta (A Hole in My Heart) (Moodysson, 
  2004) controversially straddles the boundaries of art and pornography, challeng-
  ing the supposed eroticism of pornography with disgusting re-enactments and 
  rethinkings of the violence of pornography. It is transgressive but not excessively 
  so; it is recognizably both artistic and pornographic but hardly representative of 
  either genre. In this article, I show that Paul Ardenne’s theory of extremity is a 
  good means for understanding the play with boundaries that takes place in A Hole 
  in My Heart as well as in Jacques Derrida’s analysis of genre labels. Through an 
  analysis of A Hole in My Heart’s relation to art and pornography, I propose an 
  account that allows for multiple permuta