"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 …
Hard to swallow: hard-core pornography on screen
"Even in our increasingly sexualized culture, hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still 'hard to swallow'. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of …
Hard to swallow: hard-core pornography on screen
"Even in our increasingly sexualized culture, hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still 'hard to swallow'. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of …
Introduction: "Coy leericism"--Producing permissiveness: censorship, obscenity law, and the trials of spectatorship -- Peek snatchers: corporeal spectacle and the wages of looking, 1960/1965 -- Girls with hungry eyes: consuming sensation, figuring female lust, 1965/1970 -- Watch…
One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation films--salacious indies made on the margins of Hollywood. Hundreds of such films were produced and shown on both urban and small-town screens over the course of the decade. Yet…
"From child prodigy to the most notorious director of gay adult films, Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for living on the edge with no safety line and no apologies. How a former singer and ballet dancer went from the Broadway stage to behind the camera as the world's most beautif…
'Trash films' purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behaviour, drug use and vice that the mainstream Hollywood film industry could not show. Setting these exploitation films in their historical context, and organising them according to the social problems they addres…
