Sex Scene

Eric Schaefer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He is the author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Sex Seen: 1968 and the Rise of "Public" Sex / Eric Schaefer 1 Part I. Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution 1. Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code / Christie Milliken 25 2. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams 53 3. The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s / Elana Levine 81 Part II. Sex as Art 4. Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) / Kevin Heffernan 105 5. Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere / Elena Gorfinkel 126 6. Let the Juices Flow: WR and the Midnight Movie Culture / Joan Hawkins 151 Part III. Media at the Margins 7. 33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute / Jacob Smith 179 8. "I'll Take Sweden": The Shifting Discourse of the "Sexy Nation" in Sexploitation Films / Eric Schaefer 207 9. Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold / Jeffrey Sconce 235 Part IV. Going All the Way 10. The "Sexarama"; Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience / Eithne Johnson 265 11. San Francisco and the Politics of Hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong 297 12. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier 319 Part V. Contending with the Sex Scene 13. Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler 351 14. Critics and the Sex Scene / Raymond J. Haberski Jr. 383 15. Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968-1973 / Arthur Knight and Kevin M. Flanagan 407 Bibliography 435 Contributors 451 Index 455

"[Schaefer has] assembled a stellar lineup of academic authors who know their stuff. That their stuff includes everything from MPAA ratings flaps and 'party records' to the (ahem) rise of porn chic and how TV’s The Love Boat struggled to hint at cabin couplings, means the book is like a class you wish existed, just so you could audit the entire semester. Collectively, the text is the smartest person at the party without also being the snobbish dick at said soirÉe. . . ." - Rod Lott (Bookgasm) “An important contribution to late 20th century history and will be of interest to scholars in media and cultural studies as well to historians.”  (European Journal of Communication) “[A] remarkable collection of essays about the ways in which media disrupted and recalibrated assumptions about sex and sexuality in the US during the late 1960s and early 1970s. . . . An important collection for anyone interested in media history, sexual regulation, and political activism/social change. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” - T. E. Adams (Choice) “The text is a strong contribution to the field of pop and media culture and is a great resource for those whose research interests explore the intersections of politics, media, and sex during the tumultuous period of the 1960s and 70s. But the book is also written in an accessible manner, engaging in thoughtful criticism without becoming bloated with jargon. For those who are a cineaste or have an interest in the provocateurs whose works have changed the landscape of film, Sex Scene is a great read.”  - Rebecca Lynn Gavrila (Journal of Popular Culture) "In providing a detailed history and analysis of media and sexual revolution in the middle of the twentieth century, Schaefer’s expansive book offers a timely reminder that our current concerns may be understood as an extension of longstanding debates around sexuality, visibility, privacy, and technology in American culture." - Andrea McDonnell (Journal of American Culture)