| Let's Go Stag!: A History of Pornographic Film from the Invention of Cinema to 1970 Contributor(s): Erdman, Dan (Author), Fisher, Austin (Editor), Walker, Johnny (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501333011 ISBN-13: 9781501333019 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2021023809 |
| Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit stag films - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornography history remains murky. Let's Go Stag reveals the secrets of this underground world. Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond. Let's Go Stag is sure to point the way for countless future researchers and remain the standard work of history for this era of adult film for a long time to come. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fisher, Austin: - Austin Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Bournemouth University, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (2011), founding co-editor of the "Global Exploitation Cinemas" book series and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Transnational Cinemas journal, is Co-Chair of the SCMS "Transnational Cinemas" Scholarly Interest Group, and founder of the "Spaghetti Cinema" festival.Walker, Johnny: - Johnny Walker is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His scholarship on horror cinema has appeared in journals such as Horror Studies and the Journal of British Cinema and Television. His monograph, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society, will be published in 2015 |