California dreamin' : West Coast directors and the golden age of forbidden gay movies / by Marco Siedlemann & Jack Fritscher

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siedelmann, Marco, author.

Fritscher, Jack, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay pornographic films--Production and direction--Pacific Coast (U.S.).

Gay pornographic films.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Pacific Coast (U.S.).

Motion pictures.

Gay pornography--California--History.

Gay pornography.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

California.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[United States?] : CreateSpace

Other Title:

California dreaming

Place of Publication:

Herzogenrath, Germany : Éditions Moustache; 2016.

Summary:

"In American pop art, gangster rap, punk rock, and gay filmmaking, there is a Continental Divide between East Coast and West Coast culture typified by New York and California. This esthetic regionalism may be a moot point to today's international viewers of twenty-first-century gay porn which is more "corporate meat loops" than it is the "personal" kind of visionary film narrative made by the pioneer directors. They created gay cinema. They built their box-office fame with their stories and style, and with their superb casting back in the day when the porn stars they discovered were hot guys with real personalities they knew would make audiences hard no matter what coast or country or continent: Jack Wrangler, Casey Donovan, Peter Berlin, and a host of others. No matter the coast or country, Hot is hot. Some things are universal. Essential. Everywhere. Including interviews with J. Brian, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, Roger Earl, David "Old Reliable" Hurles, Jim West, a guest article by cult filmmaker Toby Ross and numerous pages of pictures and photo art by Mark Hemry, Tom Bianchi, David Pearce, John J. Krause, Tom of Finland, Tom Kellie, and other iconic gay artists.--Back cover

Contents:

Introduction : The continental divide in American porn / Marco Siedelmann

Fritscher & Earl: two filmmakers in conversation

Fritscher & Earl: filmography in Drummer

Siedelmann: "I hated working in film": interview with Roger Earl

Roger Earl: personal top 5

Toby Ross & J. Brian's Eye for beauty

Fritscher & Brian: interview with Brian

Siedelmann & Jim West: a conversation with a dreamer

A biography of David Hurles & his Rough-trade films / Jack Fritscher

Fritscher [& Hurles]: Old Reliable: a legend in his own time

Call Hurles "Old Reliable" because he is / Jack Fritscher

The poet as porn star: Gavin Dillard interviewed / Marco Siedelmann.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783960341017

3960341016

OCLC:

1097250099