1st Edition

Screening Adult Cinema

Edited By Farrah Freibert, Peter Alilunas, Desirae Embree Copyright 2025
420 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of 39 original essays is designed to support film screenings. Each chapter focuses on a single adult film—a category broadly construed as films that foreground sex as a primary narrative, aesthetic, or marketing element. The chapters draw on a variety of perspectives, contexts, histories, themes, and politics in examinations of style, genre, authorship, performance, and stardom.... Read more

Introduction
Farrah Freibert, Peter Alilunas, and Desirae Embree

1. Untitled Stag Film (circa 1945)
Dan Erdman

2 . Vixen (1968)  
Ben Strassfeld

3. Fuego (1969)
Victoria Ruétalo

4. Language of Love (1969)      
Celeste Reeb

5. Sisters in Leather (1969)
Farrah Freibert

6. Boys in the Sand (1971)        
Gary Needham

7. Behind the Green Door (1972)          
Emalydia Flenory

8. Deep Throat (1972)   
Whitney Strub

9. Black Heat (1973)       
Farrah Freibert

10. Justine & Juliette (1975)         
Mariah Larsson

11. Desire Pie (1976)       
Ann Laudick

12. Let Me Die a Woman (1978)
rl Goldberg

13. A Rose Swallowed by Thorns (1979)
Molly Kim

14. Truth or Dare (1980) 
Oliver Carter

15. Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (1981)   
Jennifer Moorman

16. Café Flesh (1982)      
David Church

17. Rio Babilonia (1982) 
Ana Paula Magalhães da Silva

18.  Bi-Coastal (1985)      
Jacob Engelberg

19. Private Pleasures (1985)        
Desirae Embree

20. Scorpio Nights (1985)
José B. Capino

21. Powertool (1986)       
Lucas Hilderbrand

22. Concetta Licata (1994)          
Giovanna Maina and Federico Zecca

23. The Snowman (1994–8)        
Navid Darvishzadeh

24. Kizuna (1996)
K.T. Wong

25. Bend Over Boyfriend (1998) 
Lynn Comella

26. Masseuse 3 (1998)     
Seth Wilder

27. In the Cut (2003)       
Maria San Filippo

28. The Raspberry Reich (2004)         
Thomas Waugh

29. Pirates (2005) 
Filip Andjelkovic

30. Sweet as a Peach or Miss Peach: Big Breasts Peachy Sweet (2005)
Caitlin Casiello

31. Lust, Caution (2007)  
Katrien Jacobs

32. Kristina Rose is Slutwoman (2009)   
Laura Helen Marks

33. 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011)     
Jing Jing Chang and Murrielle Michaud

34. The Jellybean Challenge (2013)   
Peter Lehman

35. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)  
Kyle Meikle

36. Trinity (2016)
Madita Oeming

37. Gandii Baat (2018)
Darshana S. Mini and Anirban K. Baishya

38. Fuccbois (2019)         
Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao

39. Camera and I (2020)  
Jiz Lee        

Biography

Farrah Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Southern Illinois University, USA. Her work has appeared in venues such as Camera Obscura, Film Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Porn Studies, and the Spectator. Farrah Freibert was a co-editor with Alicia Kozma of ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (2021). Her monograph Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and Histories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition in Los Angeles is forthcoming.

Peter Alilunas is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA, and the author of Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016). His work has appeared in Porn Studies, Film History, Post Script, Television & New Media, Camera Obscura, JCMS, and Creative Industries Journal. He is the co-editor with Whitney Strub of the collection ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2022).

Desirae Embree is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles, USA. Her work focuses on the history of lesbian pornography, softcore adult film, and gender and sexuality in visual media. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, and more. Her dissertation is on the emergence of lesbian-produced hardcore during the video era.