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Man of Taste : The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Rob.
- Series:
- Film and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metzger, Radley--Criticism and interpretation.
- Metzger, Radley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Rob King uses Radley Metzger's work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing frontiers of cultural acceptability.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Radley Metzger, Man of Taste
- 1. "To Create the Kind of Films He Had Formerly Only Purchased:": The Distributor as Auteur
- 2. "The Next Step Will Be to Show 'It:' ": A Media Ontology of Eroticism
- Color Illustrations
- 3. "That's Not His Real Name:": Pseudonymity and the Porn Auteur
- 4. "Metzger's Futuristic Society:": Pornotopia and the Public Sphere
- 5. "Cult Porn Idol Gone Straight?": The Return(s) of Radley Metzger
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780231560160
- 0231560168
- OCLC:
- 1507694865
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