Elena Gorfinkel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517900175
- eISBN:
- 9781452957708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900175.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Traces the reception of sexploitation film in the latter half of the 1960s, as pornography and obscenity begin to resonate publicly as national problems. It analyzes varied responses of audiences, ...
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Traces the reception of sexploitation film in the latter half of the 1960s, as pornography and obscenity begin to resonate publicly as national problems. It analyzes varied responses of audiences, critics, countercultural observers and researchers to the sexploitation film in the latter part of the decade, as the “adult film viewer” becomes an object of concern and anxiety, derision and curiosity.Less
Traces the reception of sexploitation film in the latter half of the 1960s, as pornography and obscenity begin to resonate publicly as national problems. It analyzes varied responses of audiences, critics, countercultural observers and researchers to the sexploitation film in the latter part of the decade, as the “adult film viewer” becomes an object of concern and anxiety, derision and curiosity.
Jane Steinberg, Rebecca Butler, Mark Roy Mcgrath, and Peter R. Kerndt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199892761
- eISBN:
- 9780199301515
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199892761.003.0037
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter provides an overview of the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) related occupational hazards among performers who work in the adult film industry in ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) related occupational hazards among performers who work in the adult film industry in Los Angeles County. The chapter presents local STD/HIV morbidity data and current industry practices that increase worker risks for disease, including lack of condom use and reliance on testing as a means to control disease. Also described is California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) involvement in worker health and safety in the industry, models of successful regulations in other jurisdictions, enforcement challenges, legislative efforts and regulatory proposals. The chapter concludes with health and safety recommendations for the industry endorsed by local, state and national public health agencies.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) related occupational hazards among performers who work in the adult film industry in Los Angeles County. The chapter presents local STD/HIV morbidity data and current industry practices that increase worker risks for disease, including lack of condom use and reliance on testing as a means to control disease. Also described is California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) involvement in worker health and safety in the industry, models of successful regulations in other jurisdictions, enforcement challenges, legislative efforts and regulatory proposals. The chapter concludes with health and safety recommendations for the industry endorsed by local, state and national public health agencies.
Elena Gorfinkel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517900175
- eISBN:
- 9781452957708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900175.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Considers film regulation one of the defining contexts of the sexploitation film, as it developed on the heels of legal decisions in the late 1950s that rendered nudity in film no longer obscene; it ...
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Considers film regulation one of the defining contexts of the sexploitation film, as it developed on the heels of legal decisions in the late 1950s that rendered nudity in film no longer obscene; it traces the ways that the sexploitation film was censored and regulated in the decade, from obscenity cases and state censor boards to less formal and more local modes of regulation.Less
Considers film regulation one of the defining contexts of the sexploitation film, as it developed on the heels of legal decisions in the late 1950s that rendered nudity in film no longer obscene; it traces the ways that the sexploitation film was censored and regulated in the decade, from obscenity cases and state censor boards to less formal and more local modes of regulation.
Elena Gorfinkel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517900175
- eISBN:
- 9781452957708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900175.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Explores the development of a sexploitation gaze and the assertion of a “freedom to look” at nude bodies in the innocuous nudie cutie and the more violent roughie films 1960-1965, examining the ...
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Explores the development of a sexploitation gaze and the assertion of a “freedom to look” at nude bodies in the innocuous nudie cutie and the more violent roughie films 1960-1965, examining the figure of the gawker and the peeper that was so central to the definition of sexploitation as a mode.Less
Explores the development of a sexploitation gaze and the assertion of a “freedom to look” at nude bodies in the innocuous nudie cutie and the more violent roughie films 1960-1965, examining the figure of the gawker and the peeper that was so central to the definition of sexploitation as a mode.
Elena Gorfinkel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517900175
- eISBN:
- 9781452957708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900175.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Takes up the expansion of the “sexploitation gaze” in the latter half of the sixties decade, pursuing the freedom to look as one bestowed on female lust and desire, in films from roughly 1965-1970. ...
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Takes up the expansion of the “sexploitation gaze” in the latter half of the sixties decade, pursuing the freedom to look as one bestowed on female lust and desire, in films from roughly 1965-1970. Examines film cycles that took up female and “perverse” sexuality, and that dealt with sadism and masochism, lesbianism, sexual “perversions” and with swinging and the counterculture.Less
Takes up the expansion of the “sexploitation gaze” in the latter half of the sixties decade, pursuing the freedom to look as one bestowed on female lust and desire, in films from roughly 1965-1970. Examines film cycles that took up female and “perverse” sexuality, and that dealt with sadism and masochism, lesbianism, sexual “perversions” and with swinging and the counterculture.
Elena Gorfinkel
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517900175
- eISBN:
- 9781452957708
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900175.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation’s Cinema Scenes of Looking examines the efflorescence of American sexploitation films in the United States in the years between 1960 and 1972. Approximately ...
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Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation’s Cinema Scenes of Looking examines the efflorescence of American sexploitation films in the United States in the years between 1960 and 1972. Approximately hundreds, if not close to a thousand of such films were made in the 1960s, yet no scholarly book exists on the subject. Employing nudity but soft-core and melodramatic in tone, sexploitation films were preoccupied with the conditions of looking at exposed female flesh, conditions that they also archive and document. Defined by their low-budgets, crude mise-en-scène, and an unswerving focus on a fantastically unfettered female sexuality, sexploitation films resembled lurid pulp novels and erotic tabloids, setting the stage for the emergence of the hard-core porn film in the early 1970s with their illicit, if comparably chaste views. This book examines how the 1960s sexploitation film reconfigured the sexualized body onscreen by presenting a dialectics of indulgence and circumspection, tease and subterfuge. Gorfinkel draws on archival research and close analysis to explore sexploitation films’ regulation, reception, and strategies of sexual representation. The book reveals how sixties sexploitation films possessed a “circumstantial reflexivity,” thematizing their own conditions of reception, impacted by anxieties surrounding American film spectatorship and erotic consumption in this period.Less
Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation’s Cinema Scenes of Looking examines the efflorescence of American sexploitation films in the United States in the years between 1960 and 1972. Approximately hundreds, if not close to a thousand of such films were made in the 1960s, yet no scholarly book exists on the subject. Employing nudity but soft-core and melodramatic in tone, sexploitation films were preoccupied with the conditions of looking at exposed female flesh, conditions that they also archive and document. Defined by their low-budgets, crude mise-en-scène, and an unswerving focus on a fantastically unfettered female sexuality, sexploitation films resembled lurid pulp novels and erotic tabloids, setting the stage for the emergence of the hard-core porn film in the early 1970s with their illicit, if comparably chaste views. This book examines how the 1960s sexploitation film reconfigured the sexualized body onscreen by presenting a dialectics of indulgence and circumspection, tease and subterfuge. Gorfinkel draws on archival research and close analysis to explore sexploitation films’ regulation, reception, and strategies of sexual representation. The book reveals how sixties sexploitation films possessed a “circumstantial reflexivity,” thematizing their own conditions of reception, impacted by anxieties surrounding American film spectatorship and erotic consumption in this period.
