CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORD
PLEASURE, RESPONSIBILITY AND REFLECTION…
Veronica Hart
INTRODUCTION
PERVASIVE PEEPING: NEW WAYS TO SURVEY THE CINE-EROTIC
Xavier Mendik
01
PAGES OF SIN: BETTIE PAGE – FROM ‘CHEESECAKE’ TEASE TO BONDAGE QUEEN
Bill Osgerby
02
SOUND AND PERFORMANCE IN STEPHEN SAYADIAN’S
NIGHT DREAMS
AND
CAFÉ FLESH
Jacob Smith
03
CATHERINE BREILLAT: ANATOMY OF A HARD-CORE AGITATOR
Eleri Butler
04
DISCO SUCKS!: PORNOGRAPHY AND DISCO IN THE 1970s
Garry Needham
05
BLONDE FIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEKA
Stefan Nylén (with Christian Hallman and Magnus Paulsson)
06
THAT’S L’AMORTE: JOE D’AMATO AND THE SADEAN ART OF LOVE
Xavier Mendik
07
WHEN
SPIDERMAN
BECAME
SPIDERBABE
: PORNOGRAPHIC APPROPRIATION AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ‘SOFT-CORE SPOOF’ GENRE
Iain Robert Smith
08
THE EROTIC ADVENTURES OF MISTY MUNDAE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS ERIN BROWN
Iain Robert Smith
09
A CLOCKWORK ORGY
: A USER’S GUIDE
I.Q. Hunter
10
KING OF THE PORN SPOOFS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL L. RASO
Iain Robert Smith
11
A STAR IS PORN: CORPULENCE, COMEDY AND THE HOMOSOCIAL CULT OF ADULT FILM STAR RON JEREMY
Emily Shelton
12
‘I GUESS THEY GOT PAST THEIR FEAR OF PORN’: WOMEN VIEWING PORN FILMS
Clarissa Smith
13
‘IF YOU ACHE BENEATH YOUR INTESTINES OR SCREAM SILENTLY IN THE CAVITIES OF YOUR CHEST, THEN THIS PICTURE IS FOR YOU’: CURT McDOWELL’S
THUNDERCRACK!
Kevin Heffernan
14
‘LET’S DO SOMETHING YOU WON’T ENJOY’: DOMINATRIX PORN, PERFORMANCE AND SUBJECTIVITY
Jenny Barrett
15
NEO-LIBERAL AVANT-GARDE SEXPLOITATION IN JAPAN: THE INTERPLAY OF COLLABORATION AND REVOLUTION IN THE PINK FILM
Alexander Zahlten
16
‘HOW FAR WILL A GIRL GO TO SATISFY HER NEEDS?’: FROM DYKESPLOITATION TO LESBIAN HARD-CORE
Claire Hines
17
FLESH (FUR) AND FURY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA LINDBERG
Xavier Mendik
18
BLACK & WHITE FRILLS/SILENT THRILLS: A CASE STUDY IN PROGRAMMING AND EXHIBITION FROM ‘THE SMOKING CABINET: A FESTIVAL OF BURLESQUE AND CABARET CINEMA 1895–1933’
Simone Pyne
19
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCK NAKED: THE THRILL OF THE TRANSGENDERED PEEP SHOW
Marcelle Perks
20
PUNISHING THE PEEP SHOW: CARNALITY AND THE DANGEROUS IMAGES ACT
Julian Petley
21
SEMBLANCE AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF
VIVA
Beth Johnson
NOTES
INDEX