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1	The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry more books like this by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia add to wishlist With his colleague Jennifer Osbourne, the former punk-rock writer Legs McNeil explores the remarkable growth of the pornography industry in the second half of the 20th century through the eyes of its actors, producers, and of the gangsters who controlled them. Anonymous, drug-fueled sex in dilapidated hotel rooms, desperate, damaged people, and ... see all copies from $10.47! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
2	Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood more books like this by Mark A Vieira add to wishlist An acclaimed film historian showcases a scintillating era in movie history--"pre-Code Hollywood"--that boldly creative period in the early 1930s when defiant producers flouted the restrictions of the censors. 275 photos. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $40.47! \| first editions
3	The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies more books like this by Seth Grahame-Smith add to wishlist Porn is everywhere - a multi-billion dollar force that flows from the smallest peep show booth to the biggest convention hall. Porn is good. Porn is right. And now more than ever, porn is pervasive, John Holmes and Linda Lovelece, once matinee idols of sticky-floored nickelodeons, now have their life stories told on the screens of "respectable" ... see all copies from $4.54! new only from $7.45! \| first editions
4	Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930--1934 more books like this by Professor Thomas Doherty add to wishlist Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films -- a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $18.14! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible," Expanded Edition more books like this by Linda Williams add to wishlist In this study, the author moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $22.95! \| SVS
6	Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics more books like this by Jeffrey Sconce (Editor) add to wishlist "Bad Girls Go to Hell"; "Cannibal Holocaust"; "Eve and the Handyman"; Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low, the bad, and the sleazy face of cinema, "Sleaze Artists" brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They examine the ineffable quality of ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $28.17! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies more books like this by James Ursini, Dominique Manion, Dominique Mainon add to wishlist From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring manipulative and desperate lethal ladies. "Femme Fatale" surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema with more than 300 photographs testifying to the power of ... see all copies from $14.56! new only from $14.56! \| SVS
8	Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy more books like this by William Paul add to wishlist -- James Naremore, Indiana University see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
9	The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us on more books like this by Jami Bernard (Editor) add to wishlist The wide gamut of films that turn us on, as judged by the most distinguished group of movie critics in America The National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before - to the heart of what gets the coloured lights going as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire. Here is their take on the films that quicken ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films more books like this by Richard Meyers add to wishlist see all copies from $5.61! first editions
11	Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence, and Censorship more books like this by Peter Keough (Editor), National Society of Film Critics add to wishlist America's foremost film critics discuss sex and violence in the movies, challenging current trends toward censorship. Contains reviews of such films as Pulp Fiction, Henry and June, and Natural Born Killers, promising to raise the level of discourse on this subject. see all copies from $5.05! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
12 view cover	Screening Sex more books like this by Linda Williams add to wishlist For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema 'grew up' in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In "Screening Sex", the renowned film scholar Linda Williams investigates ... see all copies from $13.72! new only from $20.45! \| first editions
13 view cover	Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema more books like this by Steven Cohan (Editor), Ina M Hark (Editor), Ina Mae Mark (Editor) add to wishlist Screening the Male re-examines the problematic status of masulinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus. feminst criticism has shown how difficult it is for the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $37.41! \| first editions
14 view cover	Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema more books like this by Lola Young, Young Lola add to wishlist Since film became a major component of mass circulation popular culture, the portrayal of black people has erupted onto cinema screen in an apparently non-systematic, erratic manner. While these portrayals constitute an invaluable source documenting particular experiences and providing historical interpretation, they have tended to be studies for ... see all copies from $21.13! new only from $44.25! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies That Changed History more books like this by Joe Bob Briggs add to wishlist Movie stars do it better, or so it seems. Sex on the silver screen unfolds in such a perfect way and we get sucked in. Whether we want to admit it or not, much of our sexual behavior has been learned from the movies. From Joe Bob Briggs comes Profoundly Erotic, a collection of essays on sex in film. This guide explores the most seminal films& ... see all copies from $7.18! new only from $7.23! \| SVS
16 view cover	X-Rated Videotape Guide II more books like this by Robert H Rimmer add to wishlist This guide reviews approximately 1200 tapes released from October 1986 to October 1991 featuring the author's own colourful exchanges on each film's merits, an insider's behind-the-scenes account, and his own unique at-a-glance coding system. It includes an 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.50! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Sexual Subject: Screen Reader in Sexuality more books like this by Mandy Merck (Editor) add to wishlist The Sexual Subject brings together writing on sexuality which has appeared in Screen over the past two decades. It reflects the journal's continuing engagement with quesitons of sexuality and signification in the cinema, an engagement which has had a profound influence on the development of the academic study of film and on alternative film and ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $37.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century more books like this by Professor Robert J Stoller add to wishlist An exploration of the personalities and perspectives of the men and women who are part of the adult heterosexual pornography industry. Their stories, as told to the author, reveal the inner workings of "the industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $20.24! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies more books like this by Kevin S Sandler add to wishlist From parents and teachers to politicians and policymakers, there is a din of voices participating in the debate over how young people are affected by violence, strong language, and explicit sexual activity in films. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) responded to this concern in 1968 when it introduced a classification and rating ... see all copies from $13.34! new only from $21.00!
20 view cover	The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference more books like this by Tina Chanter add to wishlist Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Chanter argues that abjection is the unthought ground of ... see all copies from $17.75! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" more books like this by Linda Williams add to wishlist In this unprecedented and brilliant study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of anti-porn/anti-censorship position-taking to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. Working against tendencies to oversimplify hard core - ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $29.94! \| first editions
22 view cover	Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film more books like this by Professor Jude Davies, Carol R Smith add to wishlist Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $67.83!
23 view cover	Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies more books like this by Dominique Mainon, James Ursini add to wishlist This stunningly illustrated volume traces the history of obsessive love and erotic fixation in the cinema. It explores how seminal films such as "The Blue Angel" (1930), "Peter Ibbetson" (1935), and "Phantom of the Opera" (1943) set a precedent for films to follow."Cinema of Obsession" is divided into several sections that examine the themes of ... see all copies from $5.43! new only from $14.54! \| SVS
24 view cover	Romance & the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, & Discursive Strat more books like this by Gina Marchetti add to wishlist Focusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to perpetuate social and racial inequality in the USA. The author's discussion covers early silent films, later classics such as "Shanghai Express" and the recurring geisha movies. see all copies from $7.78! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Femmes Fatales more books like this by Mary Anne Doane add to wishlist In this major new work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference and knowledge in cinematic, theoretical, and psychoanalytic discourses. Femmes Fatales examines Freud, the female spectator, the meaning of the close-up, and the nature of stardom. Duane's analyses of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $33.20! \| first editions \| SVS

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	Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick Lasalle see all from $1.99! new only from $13.72!
	Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man by Mick Lasalle see all from $4.03! new only from $39.16!
	Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry by David Jennings see all from $14.59! new only from $14.59!
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