Disposable passions
Subtitle: vintage pornography and the material legacies of adult cinema
By: David Church
Series: Global exploitation cinemas -- vol. 2
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781501307560; 9781501307577
Subjects: Sex in motion pictures; Pornography; History and criticism; Pornographic films; Social aspects
Description: "Through changes in archival and industrial practices, the very pastness of vintage pornographic cinema becomes a source of both eroticism and cultural conflict"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eroticizing the degraded past: stag films, cinephilia, and the marketing of necro-erotic desire; title: Ephemerality between fantasy and reality: sexploitation, fan magazines, and the adults-only film and publishing industries; title: "Whatever happened to Gigi Darlene?" object lessons for a disappearing and reappearing corpus; title: Preservational ethics, cultural distinctions, and vintage pornoisseurship in the internet age.