Black and white and blue : adult cinema from the Victorian age to the VCR / Dave Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Dave, 1960 January 3-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic films--History.

Erotic films.

Sex in motion pictures--History.

Sex in motion pictures.

Pornographic films--History.

Pornographic films.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Toronto : ECW Press, [2007]

Summary:

"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 no modern history of the subject available. Black and White and Blue fills that void. Taking as its cut-off point the late 1970s, when the advent of the home VCR irrevocably changed the face of the adult film industry, Black and White and Blue celebrates a world of anonymously masked women and curiously black-sock-clad men, whose movie immortality was attained in the time it took to exhaust a roll of film. There were no artificial breasts when the first stags were made, no tattooed and pierced members, and no concept of trick photography. We revisit a time when dingy back street cinemas aired their wares beneath a “members only” sign, and a climate in which the police waited as patiently to bust the participants as audiences queued to watch them, while “polite society” looked on in (often hypocritical) disgust, unable to believe that filth like this even existed. With exclusive interviews, descriptions of over 300 films, and a conversational style, this book will represent a complete and in-depth survey of the adult film, from shaky, flickering black-and-white silents to the first flowering of the lavish modern-day production. "--pub. desc.

Contents:

Foreword

In Praise of the Dirty Picture House vii

Chapter 1 The Flesh That Flickers 1

Chapter 2 Dance the Coochee Coochee 13

Chapter 3 The Lure of the Secret Cinema 25

Chapter 4 In Praise of Unnatural Acts 37

Chapter 5 Lewdness and the Law 51

Chapter 6 Rudeness, Raunch and Revolution 59

Chapter 7 Weird Scenes Inside the Cat House 71

Chapter 8 The Sweet Smell of Vinegar 87

Chapter 9 Eureka! Mastophallation! 99

Chapter 10 The Melty Man and Other Non-myths 117

Chapter 11 Don't You Know There's a War On? 127

Chapter 12 Love on the Home Front 139

Chapter 13 Damned Dirty Stuff! 149

Chapter 14 Celebrity Skin 161

Chapter 15 Read It in Books 179

Chapter 16 That's Not Porn, It's Psychology 191

Chapter 17 Man Meets Machine 199

Chapter 18 The English Disease 217

Chapter 19 I Am Curious

Red, White and Blue 233

Chapter 20 Deep Thoughts 249.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271).

Filmography: pages 273-301.

ISBN:

9781550227918

1550227912

OCLC:

145097346

Publisher Number:

99980207947