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- Aesthetic histories of the stag film tend to place it in a straightforward lineage of pornographic imagery such that the film genre emerges more or less fully formed. Discursive histories, however, have noted that the term does not concretize in relation to the film form until approximately 1930.
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Nov 3, 2014 · By doing so, the article explores and complicates traditional histories of ‘stag’, finding new evidence that suggests the ‘stag film’ before 1930 was not a cohesive genre.
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Jul 1, 2018 · Aesthetic histories of the stag film tend to place it in a straightforward lineage of pornographic imagery such that the film genre emerges more or less fully formed. Discursive histories, however, have noted that the term does not concretize in relation to the film form until approximately 1930.
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For 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.
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The Kinsey — the preeminent archive for stag films (with almost seventeen hundred) — possesses only three that could arguably be placed in the periodization of “early cinema” (pre-1915): the German film Am Abend (In the Evening), made in approximately 1910; the Argentinian film El Satario (The Satyr), produced somewhere between 1907 and ...
- Wyatt Phillips
One weekend, back at the same old flea market, I spotted a shoebox full of 8mm films and asked what they were. “Stag films.” He hauled them out and I saw they had some hand-written labels and titles on them indicating they were from the 1950’s.
The classical American stag film, a body of clandestine short pornographic films produced during the first two-thirds of the 20th century, has received scholarly attention in several quarters, first from heterosexual male scribes and beneficiaries of.
Here, in this US-focused book, Dan Erdman attempts to chart the origins of the stag film, its growth in popularity, the people behind the production and distribution, and the many legal attempts to shut it all down.
