In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video.
Smutty Little Movies traces this change and examines the cultural and legal efforts to regulate, contain, limit, or eradicate pornography. Drawing on a wide variety of materials,
Smutty Little Movies de-centers the film text in favor of industry histories and contexts. In so doing, the book argues that the struggles to contain and regulate pleasure represent a primary starting point for situating adult video’s place in a larger history, not just of pornography, but of media history as a whole.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue. Naked Ladies and Ice Cream Bars
Introduction. Smaller Than Life: Adult Video, Pleasure, and Control
1. Panorams, Motels, and Pirates: The Origins of Adult Video
2. Adult Video News: Selling XXX without the Sex
3. The Means of Production: Vivid Video and Femme Productions
4. Saving the Family: Video Rental Stores and the Toxicity of Pornography
Epilogue. Limousines and Legacies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Peter Alilunas is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oregon.
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