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Black and White and Blue

Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR

By: Dave Thompson

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Paperback | 28 September 2007

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The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there is no modern history of the subject available.

Black and White and Blue fills that void. Taking as its cut-off point the late 1970s, when the advent of the home VCR irrevocably changed the face of the adult film industry, Black and White and Blue celebrates a world of anonymously masked women and curiously black-sock-clad men, whose movie immortality was attained in the time it took to exhaust a roll of film. There were no artificial breasts when the first stags were made, no tattooed and pierced members, and no concept of trick photography. We revisit a time when dingy back street cinemas aired their wares beneath a “members only” sign, and a climate in which the police waited as patiently to bust the participants as audiences queued to watch them, while “polite society” looked on in (often hypocritical) disgust, unable to believe that filth like this even existed.

With exclusive interviews, descriptions of over 300 films, and a conversational style, this book will represent a complete and in-depth survey of the adult film, from shaky, flickering black-and-white silents to the first flowering of the lavish modern-day production.

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Foreword - In Praise of the Dirty Picture House	p. vii
Introduction	p. xiii
The Flesh That Flickers	p. 1
Dance the Coochee Coochee	p. 13
The Lure of the Secret Cinema	p. 25
In Praise of Unnatural Acts	p. 37
Lewdness and the Law	p. 51
Rudeness, Raunch and Revolution	p. 59
Weird Scenes Inside the Cat House	p. 71
The Sweet Smell of Vinegar	p. 87
Eureka! Mastophallation!	p. 99
The Melty Man and Other Non-myths	p. 117
Don't You Know There's a War On?	p. 127
Love on the Home Front	p. 139
Damned Dirty Stuff!	p. 149
Celebrity Skin	p. 161
Read It in Books	p. 179
That's Not Porn, It's Psychology	p. 191
Man Meets Machine	p. 199
The English Disease	p. 217
I Am Curious - Red, White and Blue	p. 233
Deep Thoughts	p. 249
Epilogue	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 261
Endnotes	p. 263
Filmography	p. 273
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Black and White and Blue

Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR

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