"For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In …
Of kisses and ellipses : the long adolescence of American movies (1896/1963) -- Going all the way : carnal knowledge on American screens (1961/1971) -- Going further : Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971/1972) -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes hom…
"For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In …
The author examines a genre which evolved in the 1980s and 1990s in Britain and the US, in tandem with the rise of video. The text explores the relationship between pornography and film noir; straight-to-video film; erotic thriller stars and key directors; and women in contempor…
A bold and original study, this is the first book to examine in detail a new genre which evolved since the 1980s in tandem with shifts in the culture of sexuality and the rise of video - the erotic thriller. "This ... book examines in detail a relatively new genre of film—the e…
"The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there is n…
"Soft in the Middle demonstrates that softcore's under-the-radar success and pervasive cultural devaluation may be understood in terms of the "postfeminist" strategies employed by successive generations of producers and distributors, each intent on overcoming obstacles to the ma…
Taking the reader on a journey deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the country's distinctive sex film movements, this book gives the ins and outs of Japanese censorship from the wartime onwards as well as how topless deep sea div…
