Author: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982640623
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Sequence of images culled from Klein's larger photographic series on horse studding.

Author: Al Di Lauro
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Some mention of homosexuality and lesbianism, p. 101-103.

Author: Linda Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520219434
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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On hard core pornographic cinema.

Author: Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822340331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.

Author: Jody Pennington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313084548
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Although American films, especially Hollywood fare, are often belittled for their one-dimensional portrayal of sex, a close examination of the history of sex in American motion pictures reveals that American cinema has actually represented sex in myriad ways. A more complete understanding of the ways in which sex has been represented onscreen requires an approach that pays equal attention to cinematic techniques and to the diversity of sexual values and behaviors in American society. It is necessary to frame this discussion within the multiple contradictions of an industry that has both repressed and represented sex with equal fervor over the course of its history; of audiences that have both taken offense at and flocked to films with sexual themes; and a body politic that has regulated the sexual in popular culture even as its discourse has been saturated with sexual images and topics. The History of Sex in American Cinema moves seamlessly between general film and social history to clarify how exactly sex has been expressed cinematically, and how we have responded to those expressions as a culture. In March of 1965 the Supreme Court put into motion legal changes that marked the end of local film censorship as it had existed since the early years of the twentieth century. In Hollywood that same year, The Pawnbroker was released with a Production Code Seal of Approval, despite nudity that violated that Code. As sexual liberation occurred onscreen, parallel developments occurred in the way we lived our lives, and by the end of the 1960s Americans were having sex more often, and with more partners, than ever before. There was also now a public debate surrounding sexuality, and one of the loudest and most continually active voices in this debate was that of American film. This work begins with an examination of some of the earliest altercations in what later came to be known as the culture wars, and follows those skirmishes, more often than not provoked by American film, up to the modern day. By looking at how sex in the cinema has contributed to the demise of the fragile consensus between liberals and conservatives on freedom of expression, The History of Sex in American Film suggests a perspective from which today's culture wars can be better understood. This work combines close readings of many representative films-including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Blue Velvet, Philadelphia, L.A. Confidential, and Closer-with a social and historical account of the most significant changes in American sexual behavior and sexual representation over the past fifty years.

Author: United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Dan Erdman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501333011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "stag films" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornography history remains murky. Let's Go Stag! reveals the secrets of this underground world. Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond. Let's Go Stag! is sure to point the way for countless future researchers and remain the standard work of history for this era of adult film for a long time to come.

Author: United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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