4 Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction * Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of “Public” Sex 1
5. Part I: Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution
6. 1 Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code 23
7. 2 * Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) 53
8. 3 * The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s 81
9. Part II: Sex as Art
10. 4 Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) 103
11. 5 * Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere 126
12. 6 * Let the Sweet Juices Flow: WR and Midnight Movie Culture 151
13. Part III: Media at the Margins
14. 7 331/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute 177
15. 8 * “I’ll Take Sweden”: The Shifting Discourse of the “Sexy Nation” in Sexploitation Films 207
16. 9 * Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold 235
17. Part IV: Going All the Way
18. 10 The “Sexarama”: Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience 263
19. 11 * San Francisco and the Politics of Hard Core 297
20. 12 * Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution 319
21. Part V: Contending with the Sex Scene
22. 13 Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s 349
23. 14 * Critics and the Sex Scene 383
24. 15 * Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968–1973 407
25. Bibliography 435
26. Contributors 451
27. Index 455