Hotbeds of Licentiousness : : The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society / / Benjamin Halligan.

Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the “Summer of Love,” the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose wo...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. The Soul of Pornography
  • Part I. The Permissive Society and Its Discontents
  • 1 Two Notional Regimes of Permissiveness
  • 2 An Anti-Permissive Front
  • Part II. The Hardcore
  • 3 The ‘Connoisseur of Female Beauty’ and the ‘Curve Prospector’: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay
  • 4 Erectile Dysfunction and Societal Dysfunctionality: The John Lindsay Loops
  • Part III. The Softcore
  • 5 Derek Ford in Essex
  • 6 Tory Erotica: Sexual Fantasies for the Nouveau Riche
  • 7 David Hamilton and Uranian Aesthetics
  • Coda. Post-Permissive Pornography
  • 8 ‘Fucking Bang Me Like a Slag!’: Men with Men after Thatcher
  • Conclusion. ‘That’s What the Average Man Wants’
  • References
  • Index