An Illustrated talk by Queer Film Scholar Ryan Powell
6pm, FREE but ticket booking required click here:
http://liberationporn-eorg.eventbrite.com/
The development of the gay porn industry in the United States, following the loosening of censorship in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, enabled filmmakers to use pornography as a popular vehicle for experimenting with gay male representation at a...
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An Illustrated talk by Queer Film Scholar Ryan Powell
6pm, FREE but ticket booking required click here:
http://liberationporn-eorg.eventbrite.com/
The development of the gay porn industry in the United States, following the loosening of censorship in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, enabled filmmakers to use pornography as a popular vehicle for experimenting with gay male representation at a time when more mainstream forms were off-limits.
While these films were meant, first and foremost, to act as a turn-on for viewers, they also explored narrative possibilities, developed political rhetoric and experimented with film form. Looking
at a compelling array of seldom-seen film clips and related ephemera, this lecture will explore how sex, art and politics came together in theatrically-screened gay porn, from the rural fraternalism of Pat Rocco’s Kiss (1970) to Jean-Claude van Itallie’s agitprop exploration of corporate office-sex in American Cream (1971).