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Trash or Treasure is a study of the British video nasties, examining the historical circulation of banned films. The book argues that censorship is not just about rules and regulations, but also about the discourses that generate censorship, and the cultural and commercial consequences of a censorship act or law -- .

Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of “trash film” purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show. Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! is a meticulously researched, interdisciplinary study that is informed by a wide range of sources-including both mainstream and industry newspapers and periodicals, archival accounts, personal interviews, and the films themselves. Schaefer begins by exploring the unique mode of production of exploitation movies, their distribution, and the outrageous exhibition practices that were rooted in the traditions of sideshows and carnivals. His close analysis of dozens of films, such as The Road to Ruin, Modern Motherhood, One Way Ticket to Hell, and The Wages of Sin demonstrates that these films were more than simply “bad” movies. By situating exploitation films in a historical context and organizing them according to the social problems they addressed, Schaefer shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Finally, he focuses on the changes in the postwar American film industry that led to the decline of the classical exploitation film and set the stage for the rise of “sexploitation” in the 1960s. Engagingly written, illustrated with rare photographs, posters, production stills, and ad slicks, and offering a full filmography, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! reveals a forgotten side of film history and American culture. It will delight and inform those interested in film history, cultural studies, American studies and history, and the many fans of exploitation films.

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media-film and television, recorded sound, and publishing-that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media-film and television, recorded sound, and publishing-that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams

Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of “trash film” purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show.Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! is a meticulously researched, interdisciplinary study that is informed by a wide range of sources—including both mainstream and industry newspapers and periodicals, archival accounts, personal interviews, and the films themselves. Schaefer begins by exploring the unique mode of production of exploitation movies, their distribution, and the outrageous exhibition practices that were rooted in the traditions of sideshows and carnivals. His close analysis of dozens of films, such as The Road to Ruin, Modern Motherhood, One Way Ticket to Hell, and The Wages of Sin demonstrates that these films were more than simply “bad” movies. By situating exploitation films in a historical context and organizing them according to the social problems they addressed, Schaefer shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Finally, he focuses on the changes in the postwar American film industry that led to the decline of the classical exploitation film and set the stage for the rise of “sexploitation” in the 1960s.Engagingly written, illustrated with rare photographs, posters, production stills, and ad slicks, and offering a full filmography, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! reveals a forgotten side of film history and American culture. It will delight and inform those interested in film history, cultural studies, American studies and history, and the many fans of exploitation films.

Join Stella the Cutest Corgi on her Grand Circle Island Aloha Adventure — and meet a cast of 30 real Hawaiian animals along the way.Adventure alongside Stella as she meets a humuhumunukunukuāpua'a — the fish with the longest name on Earth — rides a humpback whale's blowhole into the Honolulu sky, and solves the Royal Riddle of a Hawaiian monk seal at Hanauma Bay. She races a green sea turtle who has all the time in the world, chases a Jackson's chameleon through misty waterfalls, stands watch with a gold dust day gecko, and watches a praying mantis say grace before every meal. She swims alongside silver spinner dolphins and a one-of-a-kind wholphin, paddles through a duck-filled dragonfly pond, and trades stories with a fruit-stand mongoose. She meets guinea-pig sisters Ruby and Topaz in the tall grass, uncovers a hidden city of chickens, befriends a mynah bird who barks like a dog, tiptoes around a shy wild boar, and watches a little bulbul take a pothole bath. At the zoo, she out-roars a pride of lions, learns to balance like a giraffe, laughs with a rainbow-painting elephant, cheers on the sunshine penguins, and races a cheetah. She teams up with a treasure-hunting warthog and meerkat, follows an X to a nēnē goose's magical tide pool, and learns the one rule about a Hawaiian centipede she must never break. By night, she flies alongside graceful manta rays, befriends a lantern-eared fennec fox, and watches the sacred night marchers pass from a safe distance. And when the ocean finally pulls her home, a wise old octopus and a family of hammerhead sharks are there to see her through.30 real Hawaiian animals. One very good girl. A lifetime of lessons.Every encounter teaches something true — about Hawai'i, about kindness, about faith, about being exactly who you are. Woven through every page: 45 real Hawaiian words and phrases, a Quick Facts page for every creature, and Stella's own true-life story — rescued in New Zealand, raised in Hawai'i, and famous for being exactly herself.Stella is real. She was in the audition video that got the family picked for Family Feud — and picked to be the very first family living in Hawai'i ever flown out to compete, a piece of game-show history all its own. They won Fast Money twice, beat five families across five episodes, and took home the Grand Prize car. When they flew back home to Hawai'i after the win, Stella was right there waiting for them. Ten years later, she was still right there — joining the family again at The Great Big Game Show at Ala Moana Center. This book commemorates that: one very good girl, still with her family a decade after the win that started it all. Her Instagram following, her original song, and this island are all real too — and now, so is her book.A heartwarming, laugh-out-loud, fact-filled island journey for readers of every age — kids, parents, grandparents, and anyone who's ever loved a really good dog.