Bigger than life : the history of gay porn cinema from beefcake to hardcore /

Hardcore porn--both the straight and gay varieties--entered 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 industr...

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Main Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Running Press, ©2009.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Hardcore porn--both the straight and gay varieties--entered 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
Physical Description:1 online resource (v, 367 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780786747535
0786747536
0786720107
9780786720101
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.