As the first survey of its kind, Soft in the Middle positions the contemporary softcore feature as a middlebrow form of pornography.
This genre of film and video has been produced by a complex and often elusive industry situated in the ambiguous middle regions between hardcore and Hollywood.
In meticulous detail, Soft in the Middle demonstrates that softcore's under-the-radar success and pervasive cultural devaluation may be understood in terms of the postfeminist st.