Sinema Erotic Adventures in Film

by Brode, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780806523132
• ISBN10: 0806523131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

Summary

Loaded with steamy stills and many never-before-published studio shots, here is a sweeping, impressionistic look at the erotic element in motion pictures from the birth of film to today's latest innovations. Focused on modern movies and the way Hollywood is currently redefining eroticism for a new millennium, this provocative study traces current trends back to their roots, and examines the ways in which sex has been uniquely treated by the medium of motion pictures.

The entire erotic spectrum is covered -- from the insertion of hidden sensuous imagery in G-movies to explicit hardcore pornography. Included are sections on striptease, bondage, and the eroticization of motorcycles, Nazis, and nudity. Lavishly illustrated with color and b/w stills from 100 years of erotic cinema, and a special section on nudity featuring legendary Hollywood stars in revealing poses.

Table of Contents

Sex! Sin! Sinema!	3	(3)
From Lillian Gish to Linda Lovelace	6	(1)
Screening the Phallic Symbol	7	(3)
The Perils of Whomever	10	(3)
A Contemporary Perspective	13	(1)
Who Was That Masked Woman?	14	(2)
Back to the Future	16	(1)
Forbidden Kisses	16	(3)
A Nation of Voyeurs	19	(1)
``Sinn the More in Secret''	20	(3)
Of Virgins and Vamps	23	(1)
From Vampire to Vamp	24	(3)
``The Horror! The Horror!''	27	(2)
The Color of Night	29	(2)
Once Is Not Enough	31	(1)
Movies as Modern Mythology	32	(3)
Soaring, Roaring Twenties!	35	(2)
Dirty Dancing	37	(2)
The Night They Raided Minsky's	39	(3)
The Charisma of the Unseen	42	(2)
``Take It All Off!''	44	(4)
Women and Men, Behaving Badly	48	(2)
But Back to the Dirty Thirties...	50	(2)
The Bad and the Blonde	52	(4)
Maureen and Hedy: Raw!	56	(2)
A Brief Autobiographical Interlude	58	(2)
Is There Life After X?	60	(2)
The Impossible Dream	62	(1)
Curse of the Cobra Woman	62	(2)
It Started With Eve	64	(2)
The Snake Pit	66	(2)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls	68	(5)
Who Killed JonBenet?	73	(1)
A Bed in Hell	74	(2)
Kiss of the Spider Woman	76	(3)
The Pain of Passion	79	(1)
A Glimpse of Stocking	80	(2)
The Presence of Absence	82	(1)
A Disease Called ``The Thigh''	83	(3)
Prisoner of Love	86	(2)
You Take My Breath Away	88	(3)
Life's a Drag	91	(3)
Kiss of Death	94	(1)
Love Stories Between Men	94	(2)
Classic Catfights	96	(2)
Tender Comrades	98	(1)
Leather Dyke/Lipstick Lesbian	99	(2)
Deliciously Deadly Dominatrix	101	(3)
Meet Marilyn	104	(3)
Middle America at Midcentury	107	(2)
Inching Toward a Sexual Revolution	109	(2)
Adultery for Adults	111	(3)
Birth of the Bikini	114	(2)
James in Bondage-Land	116	(4)
The New Victorians	120	(2)
Prelude to More Than a Kiss	122	(2)
Cruel Shoes	124	(1)
The Fetish Factory	125	(2)
I Lost It at the Movies	127	(2)
The Sensuous Stiletto	129	(1)
Made for Walking	129	(4)
The Lure of Leather	133	(1)
Biker Babes Go to Hell	134	(2)
The Dominatrix in Everyone	136	(1)
Look at Me: I'm Sandra Dee!	137	(1)
Lois in Leather	138	(2)
Killer Cleavage	140	(2)
Happiness Is a Warm Gun	142	(3)
Then Came Ginger...	145	(1)
Gun Crazy	146	(3)
Black Is Beautiful	149	(2)
Venus in Furs	151	(3)
Kitten With a Whip	154	(3)
Russ and Radley	157	(3)
The Nazi as Fantasy Figure	160	(4)
Porno Chic	164	(1)
A Different Kind of Censorship	165	(2)
Settling the Last Frontier	167	(4)
First Tangos in Hollywood	171	(2)
Cosmo Whore/Ms. Madonna	173	(1)
Like a Virgin/Not That Innocent	174	(1)
Strong and Beautiful	175	(2)
Calling Catwoman!	177	(4)
Good Girls Wear Black	181	(4)
The Phallic Female	185	(2)
Is Nudity Passe?	187	(2)
Fashion/Fantasy/Fetish/Film!	189	(6)
Selected Bibliography	195	(4)
Acknowledgments	199	(2)
Index	201	(12)
About the Author	213