Bigger Than Life : The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore.
Title:
Bigger Than Life : The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore.
Author:
Escoffier, Jeffrey.
ISBN:
9780786747535
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Introduction 1 -- PART ONE: Passports to Fantasy -- CHAPTER ONE: Blue 11 -- CHAPTER TWO: Beefcake in Babylon 47 -- CHAPTER THREE: Paradise and the City of Orgies 89 -- CHAPTER FOUR: Porn Capital of America 117 -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Real and the Fantastic 147 -- PART TWO: Death and Desire -- CHAPTER SIX: Sex in the Ruins 177 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Real Men and Superstars 205 -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Porn Noir 227 -- PART THREE: Sexual Spectacle -- CHAPTER NINE: The Perfect Orgy 255 -- CHAPTER TEN: Star Power 289 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Lost in Fantasy 325 -- EPILOGUE: The End of Gay Hardcore Films 345 -- INDEX 349 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 365 -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 367.
Abstract:
Hardcore pornboth the straight and gay varietiesentered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industry's leading trade journal, was Wakefield Poole's Boys in the Sand (1971), a sexually-explicit gay movie shot on Fire Island with a budget of 4000. Moviegoers, celebrities and criticsboth gay and straightflocked to see Boys in the Sand when it opened in mainstream movie theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Within a year, Deep Throat, a heterosexual hardcore feature opened to rave reviews and a huge box officeexceeding that of many mainstream Hollywood features.Almost all of those involved in making commercial" gay pornographic movies began as amateurs in a field that had virtually never existed before, either as art or commerce. Many of their underground" predecessors had repeatedly suffered arrest and other forms of legal harassment. There was no developed gay market and any films made commercially were shown in adult x-rated theaters. After the Stonewall riots and the emergence of the gay liberation movement in 1969, a number of entrepreneurs began to make gay adult movies for the new mail order market. The gay porn film industry grew dramatically during the next thirty years and transformed the way mengay men in particularconceived of masculinity and their sexuality. Bigger Than Life tells that story.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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