{"product_id":"lets-go-stag-a-history-of-pornographic-film-from-the-invention-of-cinema-to-1970-paperback","title":"Let's Go Stag!: A History of Pornographic Film from the Invention of Cinema to 1970 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Erdman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAustin Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohnny Walker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit \"stag films\" - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI. Rumors of this illicit activity circulated and became the stuff of urban myth, but this period of pornography history remains murky. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet's Go Stag! \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the secrets of this underground world. Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond. \u003ci\u003eLet's Go Stag!\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to point the way for countless future researchers and remain the standard work of history for this era of adult film for a long time to come.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Erdman \u003c\/b\u003eis an A\/V archivist and video preservationist at Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA, where he is responsible for a variety of media materials as they are reformatted, cataloged and ingested into the digital repository. He has published film reviews in \u003ci\u003eSenses of Cinema, The Moving Image, Public Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDemocratiya\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-wrote a chapter for \u003ci\u003eInternet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780261249312,"sku":"9781501386473","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/afa828d869e440faef7d943f3a07d6f0.webp?v=1780525656","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lets-go-stag-a-history-of-pornographic-film-from-the-invention-of-cinema-to-1970-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}