Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Of Prurient Interest or Shoot the Projectionist: An Introduction

Part One: Social and Cultural Perspective

1. Screen Sexuality: Flesh, Feathers, and Fantasies

JOHN BAXTER

2. A History of Censorship of the American Film

ARTHUR LENNIG

3. The Contemporary Movie Rating System in America

EVELYN RENOLD

4. Sex, Morality, and the Movies

LAWRENCE BECKER

Part Two: Categories and Genres

5. Troubled Sexuality in the Popular Hollywood Feature

THOMAS R. ATKINS

6. The Sex Genre: Traditional and Modern Variations on the Flesh Film

WAYNE A. LOSANO

7. Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory

WALTER EVANS

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

GENE D. PHILLIPS

9. Sex in the Contemporary European Film

LESTER KEYSER

Part Three: Contemporary Landmarks

10. I Am Curious Yellow: A Practical Education

DAVID S. LENFEST

11. Midnight Cowboy

FOSTER HIRSCH

12. Carnal Knowledge

RICHARD McGUINNESS

13. Deep Throat: Hard to Swallow

ELLEN WILLIS

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

JACK FISHER

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

DAVID R. SLAVITT

NOTES