Porno chic and the sex wars : American sexual representation in the 1970s / edited by Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronstein, Carolyn, editor.

Strub, Whitney, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornography--United States--History--20th century.

Pornography.

Pornographic films--United States--History--20th century.

Pornographic films.

Girlie magazines--United States--History--20th century.

Girlie magazines.

Pornography in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Pornography in popular culture.

Sex--United States--History--20th century.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 366 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

For many Americans, the emergence of a "porno chic" culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Whitney Strub and Carolyn Bronstein

Part I. Films

1. From Porno Chic to Porno Bleak: Representing the Urban Crisis in 1970s American Pornography

2. Re-Sexualizing Scrooge: Gender, Spectatorship, and the Subversion of Genre in Shaun Costello's the Passions of Carol

3. Desiring Desiree

4. Making Sense of Linda Lovelace

Part II. Magazines/Print Culture

5. Mass-Market Pornography for Women: Bob Guccione's Viva Magazine and the New Woman of the 1970s

6. The Economic and Racial Politics of Selling a Transfeminine Fantasy in 1970s Niche and Pornographic Print Publications

7. "Think about That Special Man Who's on His Way Home to You": Conservative Women's Sexualization of Marriage in the 1970s

8. "Soft-Core Feminism"?: Playboy, Christie Hefner, and the Feminist Antipornography Movement

Part III. Political Contexts of Pornography

9. "Handmaiden of the Pornographer," Champion of Free Speech: The American Civil Liberties Union and Sexual Expression in the 1970s and 1980s

10. Feminism Meets Fisting: Antipornography, Sadomasochism, and the Politics of Sex

11. Suppressing the Revolt of the Perverts: Gay Activist Filmmaking and the Child Pornography Panic of the Late 1970s

Part IV. Preserving Pornography: History, Memory, Legacy

12. Bridging the Gap: Adult Video News and the "Long 1970s"

13. Historical Fantasies: 1970s Gay Male Pornography in the Archives

Afterword. Fading Flesh: Personal Reflections on the Quest to Preserve Hardcore Cinema

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-459-6

OCLC:

1012273499