Zoosexuality in Culture - Troy McClure, Equus, Exploitation Film, the Golden Ass, Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Zoophilia, Clerks II, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Troy McClure, Equus, Exploitation film, The Golden Ass, Historical and cultural perspectives on zoophilia, Clerks II, An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig, A Fish Called Selma, The Apprentice, Vase de Noces, Animal Farm, 24 Hours of Explicit Sex, Keith Lard, Max, Mon Amour, The Hippopotamus, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Andreas Mikroutsikos, In Between the Sheets. Excerpt: Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex, violence, romance, etc. An exploitation film, however, relies heavily on sensationalist advertising, as well as broad overstatements of the issues depicted, regardless of how they relate to the intrinsic quality of the film. Very often, exploitation films are of low quality. Even so, exploitation films sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. Such films were first seen in their modern form in the early 1920s, but they were popularized in the 1960s and 70s with the general relaxing of censorship and cinematic taboos in the USA and Europe. The Motion Picture Association of America (and the MPPDA before it) cooperated with censorship boards and grassroots organizations in the name of preserving the image of a "clean" Hollywood, but exploitation film distributors operated outside of this circuit and often welcomed controversy as a form of free promotion. Their producers also used sensational elements to attract audiences lost to television. Since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention...