{"product_id":"disposable-passions-david-church-9781501307560","title":"Disposable Passions","description":"From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s \"porno chic, +? adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history. But what is the present-day allure of these artifacts that have since become eroticized more for their \"pastness+? than the explicit acts they show? And what are the political implications of recovering these rare but still-visceral films from a less \"enlightened, +? pre-feminist past? Drawing on media industry analysis, archival theory, and interviews with adult video personnel, David Church argues that vintage pornography retains its retrospective fascination precisely because these culturally denigrated texts have been so poorly preserved on political and aesthetic grounds. Through these films' ongoing moves from cultural emergence to concealment to rediscovery, the archive itself performs a \"striptease, +? permitting tangible contact with these corporeally stimulating forms at a moment when the overall physicality of media objects is undergoing rapid transformation. \u003ci\u003eDisposable Passions\u003c\/i\u003e explores the historiographic lessons that vintage pornography can teach us about which materials our society chooses to keep, and how a long-neglected genre is primed for serious rediscovery as more than mere autoerotic fodder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Church\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501307568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501307560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"David Church","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935194841343,"sku":"9781501307560","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2bf89c0a-c6fb-4e4f-ae47-c45b3315aeed.jpg?v=1681418406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disposable-passions-david-church-9781501307560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}