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The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry

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An edition of The Other Hollywood (2005)

The Other Hollywood

The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry

1st ed.
  • 16 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

"As a recent New York Times Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billion-per-year business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as mainstream TV hosts, making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films, and gracing the CD covers--and arms--of rock stars and Hollywood actors alike. But what most people don't know is how the porn industry got started--with a $22,000 Mafia investment in a film called Deep Throat--or how it mushroomed over the next quarter-century despite efforts by politicians, the FBI, and others to bring it down. The Other Hollywood tells that story, through hundreds of interviews by the people who lived through it. In the riveting oral-history format that made his first book, Please Kill Me, one of the most memorable accounts of 1970s underground culture, Legs McNeil now pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth between two groups--the actresses, directors, and others who made the films and the shady underworld figures who financed them--The Other Hollywood offers scores of never-before-told stories, all in the voices of those who lived them"--From publisher description.

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Regan Books
Language
English
Pages
620

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-605) and index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2005

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/6538/0973
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.S45 M36 2005, PN1995.9.S45M36 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xvi, 620 :
Number of pages
620

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3306486M
Internet Archive
otherhollywoodun0000mcne
ISBN 10
0060096594
LCCN
2004051048
OCLC/WorldCat
55729781
Library Thing
29704
Goodreads
1037272

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1874420W

Work Description

A raucous and revealing oral history of the birth of the adult film industry, The Other Hollywood peels back the candy coating to let the true story be told -- by the stars, movie makers, and other industry players who lived it. And what a story it is: Through hundreds of original interviews, contemporary newspaper accounts, police reports, court testimony, and more, Legs McNeil and coauthors Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia trace today's billion-dollar industry from its makeshift, mob-connected origins to the Internet age. Along the way we encounter porn stars such as Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, and Savannah -- along with countless mainstream stars, politicians, FBI agents, and more.Epic, hilarious, and moving, The Other Hollywood contributes to the porn industry the one thing missing in all previous accounts: a vivid, tragicomic, irresistible humanity.

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