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 work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, author Benjamin Halligan discusses pornography in terms of lifestyle aspirations and opportunities which point to radical changes in British society. In this way, pornography is approached as a crucial optic with which to consider recent cultural and social history.
Table of Content
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Soul of Pornography
Part I: The Permissive Society and Its Discontents
Chapter 1. Two Notional Regimes of Permissiveness
Chapter 2. An Anti-Permissive Front
Part II: The Hardcore
Chapter 3. The ‘Connoisseur of Female Beauty’ and the ‘Curve Prospector’: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay
Chapter 4. Erectile and Societal Dysfunctionality: The John Lindsay Loops
Part III: The Softcore
Chapter 5. Derek Ford in Essex
Chapter 6. Tory Erotica: Sexual Fantasies for the Nouveau Riche
Chapter 7. David Hamilton’s Uranian Cinema
Coda: Post-Permissive Pornography
Chapter 8. ‘Fucking Bang Me Like a Slag!’: Men with Men after Thatcher
Conclusion: ‘That’s What the Average Man Wants’
Reference List
About the author
Benjamin Halligan is the Director of the Doctoral College of the University of Wolverhampton. His publications include Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film (Berghahn Books, 2016) and the co-edited Politics of the Many: Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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