Full Description
This collection of 39 original essays is designed to support film screenings. Each chapter focuses on a single adult film—a category broadly construed as films that foreground sex as a primary narrative, aesthetic, or marketing element. The chapters draw on a variety of perspectives, contexts, histories, themes, and politics in examinations of style, genre, authorship, performance, and stardom.
The first of its kind, Screening Adult Cinema brings together a broad range of established scholars alongside new voices to demonstrate the global breadth and diversity of adult cinema, from a variety of time periods and transnational contexts, paying particular attention to regions and films that have been under-represented within existing adult film scholarship. Following the Screening Cinema series, Screening Adult Cinema is intended as a teaching text and reference for courses in which film screenings are a core activity, while also appealing to adult film scholars.
This unique collection will be invaluable for courses on adult or exploitation film history, feminist film studies, global queer cinema, and porn studies. It will also be useful for general courses in media studies with a focus on gender, sex, and sexuality.
Contents
Introduction 1. Untitled Stage Film (circa 1945) 2. Vixen (1968) 3. Fuego (1969) 4. Language of Love (1969) 5. Sisters in Leather (1969) 6. Boys in the Sand (1971) 7. Behind the Green Door (1972) 8. Deep Throat (1972) 9. Black Heat (1973) 10. Justine & Juliette (1975) 11. Desire Pie (1976) 12. Let Me Die a Woman (1978) 13. A Rose Swallowed by Thorns (1979) 14. Truth or Dare (1980) 15. Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (1981) 16. Café Flesh (1982) 17. Rio Babilonia (1982) 18. Bi-Coastal (1985) 19 Private Pleasures (1985) 20. Scorpio Nights (1985) 21. Powertool (1986) 22. Concetta Licata (1994) 23. The Snowman (1994-1998) 24. Kizuna (1996) 25. Bend Over Boyfriend (1998) 26. Masseuse 3 (1998) 27. In the Cut (2003) 28. The Raspberry Reich (2004) 29. Pirates (2005) 30. Sweet as a Peach or Miss Peach: Big Breasts Peachy Sweet (2005) 31. Lust, Caution (2007) 32. Kristina Rose is Slutwoman (2009) 33. 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011) 34. The Jellybean Challenge (2013) 35. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 36. Trinity (2016) 37. Gaandii Baat (2018) 38. Fuccbois (2019) 39. Camera and I (2020)
