Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves in trouble comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of trash film purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show. Bold Daring Shocking True is a meticulously researched, interdisciplinary study that is informed by a wide range of sources including both...
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves in trouble comprise the popul...
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves in trouble comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of trash film purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show. Bold Daring Shocking True is a meticulously researched, interdisciplinary study that is informed by a wide range of sources including both...
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves in trouble comprise the popul...
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media film and television, recorded sound, and publishing that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay...
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolut...
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media film and television, recorded sound, and publishing that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay...
Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolut...