- Gebundene Ausgabe: 367 Seiten
- Verlag: Running Pr Book Publ (25. Mai 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0786720107
- ISBN-13: 978-0786720101
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,5 x 3,6 cm
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Hardcore pornboth the straight and gay varietiesentered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industrys leading trade journal, was Wakefield Pooles Boys in the Sand (1971), a sexually-explicit gay movie shot on Fire Island with a budget of $4000. Moviegoers, celebrities and criticsboth gay and straightflocked to see Boys in the Sand when it opened in mainstream movie theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Within a year, Deep Throat, a heterosexual hardcore feature opened to rave reviews and a huge box officeexceeding that of many mainstream Hollywood features. Almost all of those involved in making commercial gay pornographic movies began as amateurs in a field that had virtually never existed before, either as art or commerce. Many of their underground predecessors had repeatedly suffered arrest and other forms of legal harassment. There was no developed gay market and any films made commercially were shown in adult x-rated theaters. After the Stonewall riots and the emergence of the gay liberation movement in 1969, a number of entrepreneurs began to make gay adult movies for the new mail order market. The gay porn film industry grew dramatically during the next thirty years and transformed the way mengay men in particularconceived of masculinity and their sexuality. Bigger Than Life tells that story.
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Gay Porn From the Inside
6. November 2009
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I had a special interest in Jeffrey Escoffier's book as I fairly much by chance started a gay bookstore in Dallas, Texas, in 1974 and rode the wave of the gay porn business for years. While my wave crashed in 2004, after reading Escoffier perhaps I got out at the right time considering the changed market from selling the product in person as opposed to the internet. All the characters that cross his pages are familiar from names on video boxes to friendships with such interesting persons as Richard Lawrence and Drew Onkon (Al Parker) - one story not in his book was told to me by Drew about selling the masters of his Surge Studio films to a certain "business man" in Las Vegas. If I were to point to any omission it would be from the view of the gay retailer such as myself. How my partner and I had to fly out of state for merchandise because of strict state laws, how we had to travel to San Francisco (a great sacrifice I know) to acquire Falcon 8mm films via Le Salon's then owner, and having to use a friend in the military in southern California to pick up videos from William Higgins. But his book does fill in a lot of blanks (such as who was known as the Black Budda) from my perspective.
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Well Written History of Gay Porn
23. Oktober 2009
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Gay Porn is an interesting counter-culture subject. I have read many books about the Gay Porn escapades. Basically the book by Wakefield Poole, bio on Casey Donovan and Al Parker; to the tragic story of Joey Stefano. This book is a perfect work to read.
The author executes subjects in gay porn in perfect timing. From the 60s of Andy Warhol's movies, to Wakefield Poole's classic BOYS IN THE SAND, then on to the development of FALCON and other production companies, gay-for-pay, and directors who process their own style. What got me thinking is how the author explains the difference between GAY PORN SUPERSTAR and GAY PORN STAR. There are many many GAY PORN STARS right now with the increasing demand of porn and internet, BUT there isn't a SUPERSTAR. I would have liked the author to talk about KRISTEN BJORN. Even though he is quoted in the book in certain areas, BJORN has his own style of gay porn which is unique and, I feel, artistic. This is an easy read, not boring at all. Buy this book!
The author executes subjects in gay porn in perfect timing. From the 60s of Andy Warhol's movies, to Wakefield Poole's classic BOYS IN THE SAND, then on to the development of FALCON and other production companies, gay-for-pay, and directors who process their own style. What got me thinking is how the author explains the difference between GAY PORN SUPERSTAR and GAY PORN STAR. There are many many GAY PORN STARS right now with the increasing demand of porn and internet, BUT there isn't a SUPERSTAR. I would have liked the author to talk about KRISTEN BJORN. Even though he is quoted in the book in certain areas, BJORN has his own style of gay porn which is unique and, I feel, artistic. This is an easy read, not boring at all. Buy this book!
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Superficial and surprisingly un-sexy history of gay porn
17. März 2011
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Jeffrey Escoffier's Bigger than Life promises a lot. According to the description on the dust jacket, it is at once a survey of gay porn films, a social history of the gay porn industry, an analysis of the cultural politics of AIDS, an account of the evolution of porn as a medium, and an exploration of gay porn in the context of technological change. To its credit, the book does try to offer all these things; but the jumping back and forth between the different modes of analysis results in a disjointed and often superficial work of scholarship.
As an over-aching history of gay porn, this book is something of a failure. The historical account Escoffier offers is oddly both too frenetic and too single minded to do justice to the depth and variety of the porn industry. He offers long, interesting analyses of Andy Warhol's films, for instance, but barely touches on major porn studios like Titan or Colt. Indeed, as far as studios go, Bigger than Life devotes the vast majority of its pages to only one: Falcon. Many other major gay porn studios (such as Bel Ami) are not even mentioned at all. As for technological change, Escoffier provides interesting insights into the shift to video and VCRs, but virtually nothing beyond that. There's no discussion of DVDs or On Demand and only 2 pages addressing the internet (a somewhat shocking omission for a book published in 2009).
As a social or cultural history of gay men and gay sex, Bigger than Life is slightly more successful. Escoffier's accounts of the pedagogical function of porn and the sexual identities it has helped promulgate are insightful. His discussion of AIDS and the use of condoms is also interesting, if a little too abridged. Unfortunately, Bigger than Life has nothing to offer about the changing function of gay porn in the internet era. Anyone born after 1975 will thus find little here that reflects their own experience with pornography. Escoffier also has a habit of citing academic or philosophical work to support his arguments without meaningfully identifying the works' authors and contexts (why on earth is Georges Bataille cited in this book?). This may not bother most readers, but readers approaching this in an academic context will likely be annoyed.
A last complaint, which some readers will find important, is that Bigger than Life lacks illustrations. This is particularly surprising as one would imagine the rights to things like ads and box cover images would have been easy to acquire. There's little in the way of racy anecdotes to make up for the lack of pictures either, which results in a disappointingly un-sexy history of gay porn.
As an over-aching history of gay porn, this book is something of a failure. The historical account Escoffier offers is oddly both too frenetic and too single minded to do justice to the depth and variety of the porn industry. He offers long, interesting analyses of Andy Warhol's films, for instance, but barely touches on major porn studios like Titan or Colt. Indeed, as far as studios go, Bigger than Life devotes the vast majority of its pages to only one: Falcon. Many other major gay porn studios (such as Bel Ami) are not even mentioned at all. As for technological change, Escoffier provides interesting insights into the shift to video and VCRs, but virtually nothing beyond that. There's no discussion of DVDs or On Demand and only 2 pages addressing the internet (a somewhat shocking omission for a book published in 2009).
As a social or cultural history of gay men and gay sex, Bigger than Life is slightly more successful. Escoffier's accounts of the pedagogical function of porn and the sexual identities it has helped promulgate are insightful. His discussion of AIDS and the use of condoms is also interesting, if a little too abridged. Unfortunately, Bigger than Life has nothing to offer about the changing function of gay porn in the internet era. Anyone born after 1975 will thus find little here that reflects their own experience with pornography. Escoffier also has a habit of citing academic or philosophical work to support his arguments without meaningfully identifying the works' authors and contexts (why on earth is Georges Bataille cited in this book?). This may not bother most readers, but readers approaching this in an academic context will likely be annoyed.
A last complaint, which some readers will find important, is that Bigger than Life lacks illustrations. This is particularly surprising as one would imagine the rights to things like ads and box cover images would have been easy to acquire. There's little in the way of racy anecdotes to make up for the lack of pictures either, which results in a disappointingly un-sexy history of gay porn.
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