Description: Through changes in archival and industrial practices, the very pastness of vintage pornographic cinema becomes a source of both eroticism and cultural conflict.
Brief description: David Churchis a film historian specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film exhibition and distribution. He is Lecturer in Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA, and is also the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (2015).
Review Quotes: A timely study ... Disposable Passions' greatest strength is that it offers an incredibly supple framework for understanding not only our historical connection to erotic media but also our erotic connections to historic media ... It is, on all accounts, a highly stimulating and nimbly argued book that deserves the critical attention it is sure to garner.
Screening Sex