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Old 01-16-2017, 05:22 PM   #880
RonTheLogician
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Cool Literary and cinematic food for thought

Hey Dani,

Today I don't have any specific suggestions to make for the content of your shoots, but instead, I'd bring your attention to a couple of new things, consumption of which might give you useful ideas! Both only cost about 15 bucks, including shipping.

The first item is a wonderful documentary on the wide range of sex-centric films which thrived between the years after World War I and the arrival of non-underground (i.e. fully legal) hard-core films in the 1970s. That's Sexploitation was issued within the last year, and runs over two hours! The recently late veteran sexploitation film-making king, Alabama's David F. Friedman, narrates clips from a wide range of films to recount this cinema genre history. That many or maybe even all of the films can be acquired from Something Weird Video makes this title an "infomercial," but I hardly think that detracts from its very great value to students of film history and aspiring film makers. Find a review by The Hollywood Reporter here, its Amazon page here, and a short, humorous trailer here.

The second item is a book by a film professor which examines over 100 sexually-focused films spanning the years between the point in history the film above concludes its exposition, and the dawn of the present decade. While this includes some non-mainstream ("porn") classics, for the most part the book recounts and analyzes exceptionally edgy mainstream and art films. Find the Amazon page for 2012's Contemporary Erotic Cinema here.

I hope you'll have the time to look at these and benefit from them!
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