Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Pleasure, Responsibility and Reflection..., by Veronica
Hart
Introduction: Pervasive Peeping: New Ways to Survey the
Cine-Erotic, by Xavier Mendik
01. Pages Of Sin: Bettie Page—from 'Cheesecake' Tease to Bondage
Queen, by Bill Osgerby
02. Sound and Performance in Stephen Sayadian's Night Dreams and
Café Flesh, by Jacob Smith
03. Catherine Breillat: Anatomy of a Hard-Core Agitator, by Eleri
Butler
04. Disco Sucks! Pornography and Disco in the 1970s, by Garry
Needham
05. Blonde Fire: An Interview with Seka, by Stefan Nylén (with
Christian Hallman and Magnus Paulsson)
06. That's L'amorte: Joe D'amato and the Sadean Art of Love, by
Xavier Mendik
07. When Spiderman Became Spiderbabe: Pornographic Appropriation
and the Political Economy of the 'Soft-Core Spoof' Genre, by Iain
Robert Smith
08. The Erotic Adventures of Misty Mundae: An Interview with
Actress Erin Brown, by Iain Robert Smith
09. A Clockwork Orgy: A User's Guide, by I. Q. Hunter
10. King of the Porn Spoofs: an Interview with Michael L. Raso, by
Iain Robert Smith
11. A Star Is Porn: Corpulence, Comedy and the Homosocial Cult of
Adult Film Star Ron Jeremy, by Emily Shelton
12. 'I Guess They Got Past Their Fear of Porn': Women Viewing Porn
Films, by 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!, by Kevin Heffernan
14. 'Let's Do Something You Won't Enjoy': Dominatrix Porn,
Performance and Subjectivity, by Jenny Barrett
15. Neo-Liberal Avant-Garde Sexploitation in Japan: The Interplay
of Collaboration and Revolution in the Pink Film, by Alexander
Zahlten
16. 'How Far Will a Girl Go to Satisfy Her Needs?': From
Dykesploitation to Lesbian Hard-Core, by Claire Hines
17. Flesh (Fur) and Fury: An Interview with Christina Lindberg, by
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', by Simone Pyne
19. The Adventures of Buck Naked: The Thrill of the Transgendered
Peep Show, by Marcelle Perks
20. Punishing the Peep Show: Carnality and the Dangerous Images
Act, by Julian Petley
21. Semblance and the Sexual Revolution: A Critical Review of Viva,
by Beth Johnson
Notes
Index
Xavier Mendik is director of the Cine-Excess Film Festival and convenor of the M.A. in cult film and television at Brunel University. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of several significant volumes on cult film, including The Cult Film Reader, Alternative Europe, Shocking Cinema of the Seventies, Underground USA, and Unruly Pleasures.
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