Lewd looks : American sexploitation cinema in the 1960s

Lewd looks : American sexploitation cinema in the 1960s / Elena Gorfinkel.

One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation films--salacious indies made on the margins of Hollywood. Hundreds of such films were produced and shown on both urban and small-town screens over the course of the decade. Yet despite their vital...

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Main Author: Gorfinkel, Elena (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Pornographic films.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Pornographic films
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Coy leericism"
  • Producing permissiveness: censorship, obscenity law, and the trials of spectatorship
  • Peek snatchers: corporeal spectacle and the wages of looking, 1960/1965
  • Girls with hungry eyes: consuming sensation, figuring female lust, 1965/1970
  • Watching an "audience of voyeurs:" adult film reception
  • Conclusion: Skin flicks without a future?

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