Sex and Film (eBook)

Barry Forshaw's books include Death in a Cold Climate, British Crime Film, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, Italian Cinema, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia , and a biography of Stieg Larsson. He has written for a variety of newspapers, Crime Time, and is a talking head for ITV author profiles and BBC documentaries.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The 1930s: Mae West, Garbo, Harlow, Dietrich and the Coming of the Legion of Decency 2. Getting it Past the Bluenoses: The 1940s 3. The Kinsey Era: The 1950s 4. Pushing the Boundaries: Preminger the Rebel 5. This Property is Condemned: Tennessee Williams 6. Arthouse cinema: the New Explicitness 7. Sex à la Français 8. World Cinema Strategies: Britain and America: The 1960s 9. World Cinema Strategies: Europe 10. No Fun Being a Pornographer: Ingmar Bergman and Nagisa Oshima 11. The 1970s: Exploitation Joins the Mainstream 12. Vixens and Valleys: Russ Meyer's Cinema 13. British Smut 14. The Porn Revolution 15. Sex in the Mainstream: The 80s and 90s 16. Anything Goes: the 21st Century 17. The End of Sex: The New Puritanism 18. Painful Odysseys Appendix 1 Appendix 2