Rob King

Man of Taste (eBook, ePUB)

The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rob King uses Radley Metzger's work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing frontiers of cultural acceptability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231560160
• Artikelnr.: 72258228

Autorenporträt

Rob King is a professor of film and media studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture (2017) and The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Radley Metzger, Man of Taste
1. "To Create the Kind of Films He Had Formerly Only Purchased:": The
Distributor as Auteur
2. "The Next Step Will Be to Show 'It:'¿": A Media Ontology of Eroticism
3. "That's Not His Real Name:": Pseudonymity and the Porn Auteur
4. "Metzger's Futuristic Society:": Pornotopia and the Public Sphere
5. "Cult Porn Idol Gone Straight?": The Return(s) of Radley Metzger
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index