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SEX SCENE: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Edited by Eric Schaefer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2014.
Sex Scene, edited by Eric Schaeffer, includes contributions from sixteen authors and specialists with various scholarly sexual backgrounds including the history of hardcore pornography, sexuality and gay matters, as well as media, film, culture, and gender studies. The book is divided into five parts (each has three chapters) of almost equal length. Each essay is supported by nude, erotic or sexy scenes, stills, and posters thus there are more than five dozens black and white figures in the entire book. The book discusses art films, sexploitation films, mainstream movies, erotic films, and gay pornography in fifteen lively essays. Schaeffer's anthology offers a comprehensive and complex history of the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Part I, Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution, has three chapters. In Chapter one, Rate It X? Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code, the author examines the transitional period in American film history which consisted of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. Milliken mainly focuses on films which were made "immediately preceding and after the implementation of the rating system through 1973-1974" (26). In chapter two, Williams states that in the late 1960s and early 1970s Hollywood...