Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution /

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media-film and television, recorded sound, and publishing-that provide evidence of the circul...

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Other Authors: Schaefer, Eric, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rate it x? : Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken
  • Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams
  • The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine
  • Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan
  • Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel
  • Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins
  • 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith
  • "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer
  • Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce
  • The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson
  • San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong
  • Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier
  • Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler
  • Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. Haberski Jr.
  • Porn goes to college : American universities, their students, and pornography, 1968-1973 / Arthur Knight and Kevin M. Flanagan.