obscenity

Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?

Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?

Film history work Lewd Looks argues that sexploitation films provided an underground and important bridge between the end of old Hollywood and the start of something else.

A 50th Anniversary Reflection on Lenny Bruce’s Brilliance

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ Makes a Mockery of Things

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom’ Makes a Mockery of Things

Viewers are acutely aware that Pasolini makes a mockery of things and went too far with Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. But too far, morally? Personally and psychologically? Politically? Somehow metaphysically?