Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3713-1 (ISBN)
Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained tracks how women and gay male entrepreneurs were central to the production, distribution and exhibition of adult media in and adjacent to Los Angeles County, and how these key players used industrial tactics to introduce new and more explicit forms of cultural production.
The book develops a queer media industry studies approach to analyse how these creative entrepreneurs ventured into the nascent commercial adult film industry by maneuvering around and sometimes colliding with cultural regulatory mechanisms of censorship. Moving beyond representational approaches to censorship, this book’s novel examination of production, distribution and exhibition provides insights into the industrial and cultural interworkings of historical adult media industries and how content is related to business developments and constraints.
Through this investigation, the book assesses manifold modes of censorship ranging from bureaucratic restrictions on market availability to law enforcement’s stringent policing of exhibition spaces under legal regimes including obscenity.
Farrah Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. With research that spans media history and industry studies, global media circulations and LGBTQ+ history, she has published widely in peer-reviewed scholarly venues such as Film Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Monstrum, Porn Studies, the Journal of Homosexuality, Spectator, Synoptique, and Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. Dr. Freibert is coeditor with Alicia Kozma of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (2021).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards a Queer Media Industry Studies
1. “Queer Doings in the Balcony”: the emergence and policing of Continental Theaters, 1961-1969
2. Producing “gay aesthetic red”: audience stakeholders and racial-sexual contracts in the production and exhibition of Song of the Loon
3. Feminist Alchemy: Nancy Lindsey and the policing of distribution and exhibition in 1970s Southern California
4. Documentary real estate: place and property politics in histories of Circus of Books
Conclusion: Archival outrage: censoring history through archival destruction
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Screening Sex |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3713-X / 139953713X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3713-1 / 9781399537131 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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