Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult VideoIn the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video. Smutty Little Movies traces this change and examines the cultural and legal efforts to regulate, contain, limit, or eradicate pornography. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, Smutty Little Movies de-centers the film text in favor of industry histories and contexts. In so doing, the book argues that the struggles to contain and regulate pleasure represent a primary starting point for situating adult video’s place in a larger history, not just of pornography, but of media history as a whole. |
Contents
Adonis Cinema Club advertisement 1971 722 | 10 |
Cal Vistas catalogue 1979 | 12 |
Time cover April 5 1976 | 26 |
The Origins of Adult Video | 40 |
Video cassette rentals advertisement 1977 | 41 |
George Ponser Company advertisement 1943 | 44 |
AutoLodge Motel Los Angeles circa 1970 | 57 |
AutoLodge Motel advertisement 1972 | 58 |
VideoXPix advertisement for The Erotic World of Angel Cash 1983 | 107 |
Adult Video News Video advertisement 1986 | 110 |
Vivid Video and Femme Productions | 117 |
Blue Magic poster 1981 | 138 |
Femme video box cover 1984 | 147 |
Video Rental Stores and the Toxicity | 158 |
Antipornography protestors Clinton Township Michigan 1980 | 164 |
Final Report July 9 1986 | 173 |
Home Theater Systems advertisement 1975 | 69 |
Sweethearts Home Video Centers advertisement 1978 | 76 |
Love TV advertisement 1979 | 79 |
Selling XXX without the Sex | 84 |
Video stores back room in Roseanne aired 1997 | 190 |
Credits in On the Prowl 1989 | 203 |
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Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video Peter Alilunas Limited preview - 2016 |
Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video Peter Alilunas Limited preview - 2016 |
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