Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema From the Victorian Age to the VCR

The movies that society has termed pornographic motion pictures have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet past a handful of scholarly tracts, and a couple of glancing references in sure Hollywood histories, there isn’t a trendy historical past of the topic out there. Black and White and Blue fills that void. Taking as its cut-off level the late Seventies, when the introduction of the dwelling VCR irrevocably modified the face of the grownup movie business, Black and White and Blue celebrates a world of anonymously masked ladies and curiously black-sock-clad males, whose film immortality was attained in the time it took to exhaust a roll of movie. There have been no synthetic breasts when the first stags have been made, no tattooed and pierced members, and no idea of trick pictures. We revisit a time when dingy again road cinemas aired their wares beneath a “members solely” signal, and a local weather during which the police waited as patiently to bust the members as audiences queued to watch them, whereas “well mannered society” regarded on in (usually hypocritical) disgust, unable to imagine that filth like this even existed. With unique interviews, descriptions of over 300 movies, and a conversational model, this guide will symbolize an entire and in-depth survey of the grownup movie, from shaky, flickering black-and-white silents to the first flowering of the lavish modern-day manufacturing.