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Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering “new information for me.” Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted's star waned in the 1980s with the emergence of a more commercial gay-porn industry. After the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, lover, spouse (and tormentor) Joey Yale in 1986, Halsted committed suicide in 1989.In Halsted Plays Himself, acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halsted—to zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions. Jones assembles a narrative of a long-gone gay lifestyle and an extinct Hollywood underground, when independent films were still possible, and the boundary between experimental and pornographic was not yet established. The book also depicts what sexual liberation looked like at a volatile point in time—and what it looked like when it collapsed.

Cinéma --- Gay motion picture actors and actresses --- Gay pornographic films

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A chance meeting draws the shady Otsuki to the home of a master calligrapher, where he is subjected to a bizarre pornographic movie in which shots of a teenage girl alternate with close-ups of insects. Otsuki is then introduced to the calligrapher's attractive granddaughter, the star of the film, and is asked to shoot the remainder of the work himself. A metaphysical thriller, surreal noir, and 'moral tale' gone wrong, Triangle is an unsettling peek into the dark and irrational reality lying beneath a city.

J5933 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose by individual authors (1868- ) --- Interpersonal relations --- Pornographic films --- Interpersonal relations - Fiction --- Pornographic films - Fiction

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Pornography --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Pornographic films --- Production and direction

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Depuis les années 1970, la pornographie s'organise comme un monde professionnel, se fixant pour tâche de représenter les désirs des consommateurs, mobilisant des savoir-faire spécifiques pour y parvenir. Alors que l'influence de ces images ou la violence qui les caractériserait sont souvent au centre des débats, ce livre, en s'appuyant sur une enquête de terrain au sein la production pornographique française, pose d'autres questions : comment les pornographes parviennent-ils à circonscrire un espace pour leur activité ? Quelles formes prennent les relations de travail dans un contexte de professionnalisation de la sexualité ? Comment s'opèrent les partages entre sexualité féminine et masculine, homosexualité et hétérosexualité, et pourquoi sont-ils ici un enjeu majeur ? Mettant en marché les fantasmes, mobilisant les désirs des actrices et des acteurs, reposant sur des formes spécifiques d'exploitation, le monde de la pornographie permet de saisir certaines évolutions contemporaines du capitalisme, et leurs articulations avec les rapports de genre et de sexualité. Il offre également l'occasion de faire de l'hétérosexualité un objet d'enquête à part entière. Alors que réalisateurs et producteurs se donnent pour tâche de saisir une multiplicité de fantasmes, ils définissent leur métier comme masculin, mais aussi comme hétérosexuel. L'enquête met en évidence une circonscription paranoïaque de l'homosexualité masculine et les contradictions au principe de l'hétérosexualité, dans lesquelles les pornographes sont pris.

Pornography --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Pornographic films --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism.

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When Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship, Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and "bad" archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, and ecstasy in Bó and Sarli's films interrupted the already fragmented film narratives of the day and created alternative sexual possibilities.

Pornographic films --- Bó, Armando, --- Sarli, Isabel --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.