Fleshpot : cinema's sexual myth makers and taboo breakers / edited by Jack Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevenson, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic films--History.

Erotic films.

Sex in motion pictures--History.

Sex in motion pictures.

History.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Critical Vision, 2000.

Summary:

Fleshpot is an indispensable guide to the outre realms of erotic cinema, a delirious sampling of the genres, personalities and trends that have set screens aflame since the dawn of motion pictures. From the pioneering 'nudies' and 'stags' to the American pre-code Talkies and the racy European imports of the forties and fifties -- from softcore to hardcore and beyond -- Fleshpot probes beneath the facades of art, exploitation and underground film genres to reveal... Sleaze! For ten years Jack Stevenson has been writing and collating materials on the history and lore of sex cinema. This compendium of texts by an international group of experts and cult film personalities (including Kenneth Anger and George Kuchar) is the result. Illustrated throughout, Fleshpot is a fascinating and informative introduction to some of cinema's most notable sexual myth makers and taboo breakers; the legends and the brigands, the deified and the damned. Never before has the world of sex cinema been sampled in such compelling, breathless variety.

Contents:

Tours Through History And Genre

Blue Movie Notes: Ode To An Attic Cinema / Jack Stevenson 7

And God Created Europe: How The European Sexual Myth Was Created and Sold To Post-War American Movie Audiences / Jack Stevenson 17

When The Lights Go Down (In The Classroom): A Look At Sex Education Cinema And The (Related) Moralist Melodrama / Jack Stevenson 49

Love Stinks: Erotic Imagry In German/Austrian Experimental Cinema / Uli Wegenest 63

Vamps

That's Why The Lady Is A Vamp: The Danish Origins Of The Screen's First Dangerous Lady / Maren Pust 77

A Vivianne Romance: Ode To A French Screen Legend / Kenneth Anger 91

Queer Visions

From The Bedroom To The Bijou: A Secret History Of American Gay Sex Cinema / Jack Stevenson 101

Hercules Meets Cops In Drag: Queer Excess In Italian Exploitation Cinema / Kristoffer Gansing 119

Spotlight On Personalities

Hardcore Circus: Deep Throat On Thin Ice In Norway / Jack Stevenson 131

Linda Lovelace Speaks: An interview / Various 137

The Other Face Of Love: Udo Kier's Career In The Erotic Genre / Tons May 141

Udo Speaks: An interview with Udo Kier / Tons May 159

Russ Meyer: The Movie Man Who Would Be King / Jack Stevenson 163

Dead Famous: The Life And Movies Of Cinema's Most Exploited Figure, Bodil Joensen / Jack Stevenson 177

Jolly Hockey Sticks!: The Career Of John Lindsay, Britain's 'Taboo' Film-Maker Of The Seventies / David Kerekes 191

Shu Lea Cheang: Sex Art Aborigine / Johannes Schonherr 197

Ekiben: Escape From Beneath The Valley Of Adult Video Hell / Johannes Schonherr 201

Personal Dispatches From The Front (And Back)

Lips On Latex: How To Make A Sex Symbol / George Kuchar 205

Shakin' All Over: Stockholm Does Itself In 1999 / Linda Hedihn 215

Forever Young: The Search For The Perfect Porn Film / Jack Stevenson 233

Porn On Film: A Revised Manifesto / Jack Stevenson 238.

ISBN:

1900486121

OCLC:

44561595