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Zusatztext Dan Erdman’s bold and meticulously researched Let’s Go Stag! pushes past the speculations, false claims, and inaccurate assumptions that have long plagued the study of stag films to deliver—finally—the kind of clarity and grounded histories that have been so desperately needed. This extraordinary book not only opens the door to adult film history’s crucial origins, it makes a deeply significant, field-changing contribution while doing it. Informationen zum Autor Dan Erdman is a historian, archivist, and critic. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, and Cinema Sewer. He is the video preservation specialist at Media Burn Archive, and he lives in Chicago, USA. Klappentext For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "stag films" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornography history remains murky. Let's Go Stag! reveals the secrets of this underground world. Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond. Let's Go Stag! is sure to point the way for countless future researchers and remain the standard work of history for this era of adult film for a long time to come.A comprehensive history of the production, distribution and exhibition of pornography on film in the United States. Zusammenfassung For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "stag films" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornography history remains murky. Let's Go Stag! reveals the secrets of this underground world. Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond. Let's Go Stag! is sure to point the way for countless future researchers and remain the standard work of history for this era of adult film for a long time to come. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The Earliest Stag Films: to 1923.2. The Stag Scene and the Debut of 16mm Film: 1923 to World War II3. Stag Films During the War Years: 1941 to 19454. Post-war: 1945 to 1970Conclusions and Directions for Further ResearchIndex...
