... the harmful effects of popular culture share much with T. W. Adorno’s arguments about how repetitive popular cultural forms constrain critical thinking and the desire for social change. Pornography and Obscenity (1929) contains Lawrence's most direct attack on popular culture, which he claims...

... Olivia Damiano Gerard Ford John Spinelli Anthony Trollope Anthony Wilder Billy Wyler William Cirile Jim Howard Cecil Sear Sound Exploitation film Grindhouse Pornography Horror film This interview, edited and condensed for clarity, took place on September 21, 2021...

... to transgressive art films: the boundary between art and pornography. Many transgressive art films transgress this boundary, even as it remains an important legal and cultural dividing line between two mutually exclusive genres. This chapter explore how genre theory is able to shed light on some of the issues...

...An account of the prosecution and closure of Scotland’s first sex shop in 1971 forms a prelude to a review of the subsequent crusade of purity activists and moral vigilantes in Scotland’s cities against the spread of pornography and sexual display. While the Scottish Office initially was content...

... on labia. The chapter notes that the film did not fare as well with audiences as some of Moodysson's earlier films, though critics were more favourable towards it and tended to read it as a scathing critique of the pornography industry. Considering the links between Moodysson's filmmaking and the Swedish...

... relationship with the pornographic and her appeal to little noises and listening in spectatorship. In contrast to sound in pornography which generally represents female pleasure through loud, haptic sound - often collapsing spatial realism to provide a closer sense of contact with the body on screen - Breillat...

...The chapter reconstructs the actions and debates about pornography in the Italian feminist movement. It details on the feminist campaigns against Luis Berlanga’s film “Life Size” (1975), the assaults to the cinema theatres happened in several cities during the ‘Take Back the Night’ demonstrations...

...This chapter develops a number of themes introduced in the previous chapter, most obviously those which touch on contemporary expressions of child-abuse. The broader focus of the chapter is on the familiar, and contentious, issue of pornography and its legal regulation. More particularly, though...

... Marie Starowieyski Franciszek Wojtkiewicz Witold Adorno Theodor Petrović Aleksandar Polanski Roman Walerian Borowczyk pornography sexual pleasure mind and body Catholicism state socialism He’s without doubt one of the most interesting and unusual directors of all time, and his movies...

...This chapter explores the inclusion of graphic sexual content in post-millennial cinema. Art films have increasingly incorporated scenes of unsimulated, hardcore sex acts—traditionally associated with pornography—into their narratives in recent years. Arousal, perhaps more so than any of the other...

... of Misty Beethoven The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann Watergate Wood Robin Dunn Stephanie Horror Pornography B-movie Paracinema Sexploitation Exploitation films are not and never were Hollywood movies. The term ‘Hollywood’ may relate to a geographic area but its usage...

... Curious Yellow The Lovers Maitland Lorna Malle Louis Moreau Jean Nyman Lena Allen Robert Gomery Douglas Deep Throat Klemesrud Judy Lovelace Linda Hardcore Sex Sexploitation Pornography Gender In the Russ Meyer film Lorna, the title character (played by Lorna Maitland...

... Throat 1972 Language of Love The 1969 Lehman Peter Swedish Deep Throat Svenska långt när i halsen 2007 Wickman Torgny McNair Brian Björklund Elizabeth Lamb John Sexual Freedom in Denmark 1970 Uhse Beate National Transnational Pornography Domestic and Gloabal Markets Fäbodjäntan The most...

...This introductory explains the theme of this book, which is about French queer cinema. The book aims to document forms of contemporary queer representation through coverage of auteur film, pornography, and DIY digital video. It charts the emergence of a radical, DIY digital video culture, combining...

.... Producer Allan Shackleton bought the film and attached a new ending (shot by a different director), releasing it in 1976 as Snuff, the title under which it took on notorious cultural status, spurred anti-pornography protests, and solidified the “snuff” genre purporting to show actual human...

... Sweet Freedom 1976 Dear Pam 1976 Sanders Pam Sweet Punkin’ I Love You 1976 Exploitation film Pornography Comedy Satire Farce On November 21, 1974, an advertisement ran in the New York Times for Roberta Findlay’s film Angel Number 9 with the tagline “The first...

... McNeil Legs Nastasi Alison Nichols Kelly Jennings David Frontline Shattered Innocence 1988 Connelly Tim Lee Hyapatia Millington Mary Exploitation film Pornography Shauna Grant Documentary Avant-garde film “Only a sociopath could have made this movie.” It was my first thought on viewing...

... The Becker Vernon Craze aka The Infernal Doll Cushing Peter From Beyond the Grave horror movies Howarth Donald Infernal Doll The aka Craze Lake Alan Nothing but the Night Pied Piper The pornography Price Vincent Queenie’s Castle TV sitcom Royal Court Theatre Sarno Joe Sellers Peter sex...

...In the summer of 1969, Denmark was the first country in the world to legalise visual pornography. This chapter outlines the history of film censorship in Denmark, examining how socio-cultural change led to gradual testing of legal limits. The immediate impact of the lifting of censorship...