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by Peter Alilunas (Author)
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.
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The future of pornography studies is secure! Alilunas's beautifully researched and written history of the Boogie Nights era is the best book on pornography I have ever read!--Linda Williams, author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
"That pornography was essential to the success of home video--and vice versa--has long been taken as a given, but this is the first book to successfully reveal the important and elusive industrial history of adult video."--Lucas Hilderbrand, author of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright
Author Biography
Peter Alilunas is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oregon.
