Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution

Published by Duke University Press 2014

Sex Scene

Media and the Sexual Revolution

Edited by: Eric Schaefer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376804

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About this book

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 circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.

Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams

Author / Editor information

Eric Schaefer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He is the author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959, also published by Duke University Press.

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Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of “Public” Sex * Eric Schaefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution
1. Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code Christie Milliken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) Linda Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3. The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s Elana Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Part II: Sex as Art
4. Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) Kevin Heffernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere Elena Gorfinkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
6. Let the Sweet Juices Flow: WR and Midnight Movie Culture Joan Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Part III: Media at the Margins
7. 33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute Jacob Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
8. “I’ll Take Sweden”: The Shifting Discourse of the “Sexy Nation” in Sexploitation Films Eric Schaefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
9. Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold Jeffrey Sconce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
10. The “Sexarama”: Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience Eithne Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
11. San Francisco and the Politics of Hardcore Joseph Lam Duong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
12. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution Jeffrey Escoffier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Part V: Contending with the Sex Scene
13. Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s Leigh Ann Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
14. Critics and the Sex Scene Raymond J. Haberski Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
15. Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968–1973 Arthur Knight and Kevin M. Flanagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 484
Illustrations
- Other: 58 photographs

eBook

Published: March 21, 2014
ISBN: 9780822376804