NOTES

1. Screen Sexuality: Flesh, Feathers, and Fantasies

JOHN BAXTER, an Australian-born writer who lives in England, is the author of numerous books, including Hollywood in the Thirties, Science Fiction in the Cinema, Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, and An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell. A frequent leeturer at London’s National Film Theatre, he has been a juror in many European film festivals.

2. A History of Censorship of the American Film

ARTHUR LENNIG teaches film at State University of New York at Albany and is the author of several books, among them Film Notes, Classics of the Film, The Sound Film, and most recently The Count: The Life and Films of Bela “Dracula” Lugosi. His latest project is a critical biography of D. W. Griffith.

1. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights (New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1926), 399.

2. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (London: Birt and Trye, 1738), 1

3. Ibid., 3.

4. Ibid., 5.

5. Lewis Jacobs, The Rise of the American Film (New York City: Harcourt Brace, 1939), 62.

6. John S. Sumner, ״The Sewer on the Stage", Theatre Magazine, December 1923, 9.

7. Ruth A. Ingles, Freedom of the Movies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947), 79.

8. Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1924.

9. Morris L. Ernst and Pare Lorentz, The Private Life of the Movie (New York City: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930), 84.

10. Ibid., 11-12.

11. Ibid., 30.

12. Ibid., 38.

13. Henry James Forman, Our Movie Made Children (New York City: Macmillan Company, 1933), 36.

14. Ibid., 91.

15. Ibid.,51.

16. Ibid., 46.

17. Ibid., 151.

18. Freedom of the Movies, 123.

19. New York Times, October 2,1933.

20. Pope Pius XI, “Vigilanti Cura,” New York Times, July 3,1936.

21. Film and Television Daily, October 31,1969.

22. Ibid., December 3,1969.

23. Ibid., November 11,1969.

24. New York Times, March 2,1973.

25. Variety, January 9, 1974.

26. Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice, March 20,1969.

3. The Contemporary Movie Rating System in America

EVELYN RENOLD is managing editor of Coast magazine in Los Angeles and has writ- ten for the Los Angeles Times and other publications. In 1971 she was an intern on the MPAA Ratings Board.

4. Sex, Morality, and the Movies

LAWRENCE BECKER teaches philosophy and religion at Hollins College, Virginia, and is a frequent contributor to leading philosophical journals and to The Film Journal. He has recently published a book entitled On Justifying Moral Judgments.

5. Troubled Sexuality in the Popular Hollywood Feature

THOMAS R. ATKINS is chairman of the Theatre Arts department of Hollins College, Virginia, and editor-publisher of The Film Journal. His work has appeared in Sight and Sound and many other periodicals, and he is general editor of a new series of film books to be published by Simon and Schuster.

6. The Sex Genre : Traditional and Modern Variations

WAYNE A. LOSANO teaches film and technical communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. His articles have appeared in periodicals like the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and The Film Journal.

1. Fred Chappell, “Twenty-Six Propositions about Skin Flicks/׳ in Man and the Movies, W. R. Robinson, ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967), 57.

2. William Rotsler, Contemporary Erotic Cinema (New York: Ballantine, 1973), 28-29.

3. Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert, “The History of Sex in Cinema: part 17, The Stag Film,” in Playboy, November 1967, 170.

4. Maurice Yacowar, “Beyond the Fringe and Up the Pompous: Sex the Funny Prophet,” unpublished paper delivered at the National Popular Culture Convention, May 1973.

5. Russel Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse (New York: Dial Press, 1970), 4.

6. Knight and Alpert, 176.

7. Ibid., 178.

8. Chappell, 57-58.

9. Knight and Alpert, 186.

10. Rotsler, 251.

11. Without a Stitch (1970) was, amazingly, able to “show” simultaneous anal and vaginal penetration without revealing even a hint of the male organs involved.

12. Chappell, 59.

13. Bruce Williamson, “Porno Chic” in Playboy, August 1973,136.

14. Jim Mitchell, who with his brother was one of the pioneers of the hard-core films, complains that these plots “detract from the fucking, which after all is what hard-core is about.” George Csicsery, The Sex Industry (Signet, 1973), 168.

15. Ellen Willis gives suggestions for a sex film for women in her article on Throat elsewhere in this book, and some of my students have developed believable cases for The Devil in Miss Jones being a “woman’s film.״

7. Monster Movies : A Sexual Theory

WALTER EVANS teaches in the English department at Augusta College, Georgia, and has published essays in the Kansas Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Popular Film, and elsewhere. He is working on a longer study of monster movies.

1. Curtis Harrington asserts that such movies are more popular in periods of depression and disorder. See “Ghoulies and Ghosties” in Roy Huss and T. J. Ross, eds., Focus on the Horror Film (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972), 17-18.

2. Lawrence Alloway, “Monster Films,” in Focus on the Horror Film, 123.

3. Frank McConnell, “Rough Beasts Slouching,” in Focus on the Horror Film, 26.

4. R. H. W. Dillard, “Even a Man Who Is Pure at Heart: Poetry and Danger in the Horror Film,” in W. R. Robinson, ed., Man and the Movies (Baton Rouge: L. S. U. Press, 1967), 65.

5. Lawrence Alloway, 124. He is speaking specifically of the effects of death and decay.

6. John Thomas, “Gobble, Gobble .. . One of Us !” in Focus on the Horror Film, 135.

7. John D. Donne, “Society and the Monster,” in Focus on the Horror Film, 125.

8. Drake Douglas, Horror! Collier Books (New York City: Macmillan, 1966), 11.

9. The statement was made on “Frame of Reference,” a discussion following the showing of The Blue Angel on the American public television program, Film Odyssey.

10. See Ernest Jones, “On the Nightmare of Bloodsucking,” in Focus on the Horror Film, 59.

11. “The Child and the Book,” in Only Connect, Sheila Egoff, G. T. Stubbs, and L. F. Ashley, eds. (New York City: Oxford University Press, 1969), 93-94.

8. The Boys on the Bandwagon : Homosexuality in the Movies

GENE D. PHILLIPS, S.J., teaches fiction and film at Loyola University of Chicago. A frequent contributor to U.S. and foreign film periodicals, he has been a juror or panelist at Cannes, Chicago, and Berlin film festivals. He is the author of The Movie Makers: Artists in an Industry and Graham Greene: The Films of His Fiction. He is currently working on studies of Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock.

9. Sex in the Contemporary European Film

LESTER KEYSER, who teaches at Staten Island Community College of the City University of New York, is a contributing editor for the National Catholic Film Newsletter. His work has appeared in Literature I Film Quarterly and other periodicals, and he has contributed to the book Ingmar Bergman: Essays in Criticism.

1. Parker Tyler, Classics of the Foreign Film (New York: The Citadel Press, 1962), 79.

2. Andrew Sarris, Interviews with Film Directors (New York: Avon Books, 1967),

3. Quoted in Ian Cameron and Robin Wood, Antonioni (New York: Praeger, 1968), 9.

4. Quoted in Sarris, 436.

5. Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1966), 23.

6. Quoted in Joseph Geimis, The Film Director as Superstar (New York: Doubleday, 1970), 105.

7. Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art (New York: Random House, 1974), 153.

8. Pauline Kael, Deeper into Movies (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 475.

10. I Am Curious—Yellow: A Practical Education

DAVID S. LENFEST teaches satire and poetry at Loyola University of Chicago and is also a filmmaker. Radim Films distributes his The Great Odor of Summer, and he has recently finished another film called George Washington Sleeps Here.

1. Vilgöt Sjoman, I Am Curious (Yellow), trans, by Martin Minow and Jenny Bohman (New York: Grove Press, 1968). All quotations from the trial or the script are from this volume.

2. Bertolt Brecht, “From the Mother Courage Model", in Brecht on Theater, trans, by John Willett (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), 215-20 quoted in Stanley A. Clayes, Drama & Discussion (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1967), 273.

3. Brecht, 272.

11. Midnight Cowboy

FOSTER HIRSCH teaches English at Brooklyn College, New York, and has written essays and reviews for the Nation, Commonweal, the New York Times, and many film periodicals.

12. Carnal Knowledge

RICHARD MCGUINNESS is a film critic whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Rolling Stone, Changes, Moviegoer, and Film Comment. For two years he contributed weekly television commentary to the Village Voice.

13. Deep Throat: Hard to Swallow

ELLEN WILLIS contributes regularly to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other periodicals.

14. Last Tango in Paris: The Skull Beneath the Skin Flick

JACK FISHER, who teaches film and directs theater at Norfolk State College in Virginia, has written criticism for The Film Journal, Contempora, and other magazines.

15. Sexuality in Film: Reconsiderations after Seeing Cries and Whispers

DAVID R. SLAVITT, who was for seven years a film critic for Newsweek, has written several volumes of poetry and many novels, including Rochelle, or Virtue Rewarded, Feel Free, Anagrams, and The Killing of the King. As “Henry Sutton” he wrote the bestsellers The Exhibitionist and The Voyeur.