{"product_id":"the-swedish-porn-scene-exhibition-contexts-8mm-pornography-and-the-sex-film-9781783206827","title":"The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmö between 1971 and 1976. How, Mariah Larsson asks, was that one small city’s embrace of the era’s sexual liberation both representative and unique in relation to the rest of Sweden?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Combining historical case studies with comprehensive analyses of advertisements, critical responses and censorship records, Larsson deconstructs the complexities and paradoxes of the Swedish porn scene. Looking as closely at the exhibition spaces where porn was seen as at the productions themselves and their audiences, Larsson reveals the conditions and social changes that allowed pornography in Sweden to flourish in the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This careful analysis will have significant\u003cbr\u003e  resonance across the western world. It also provides a much needed historical background to recent and likely future changes in Swedish policy around commercial sex.’\u003cbr\u003e  Emeritus Professor Jill Matthews,\u003cbr\u003e  Australian National University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Sexually explicit films and the welfare state(s)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Mapping the genre: The boundaries of pornography\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Constructions of sexual space: The case of Malmö\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Exhibition venues in Malmö\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Size does matter: The substandard pornographic films of the 1970s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: A regional, national and transnational cinema?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The porn scene in Sweden, 1971–1976\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042265825623,"sku":"9781783206827","price":31.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783206827.jpg?v=1750953690","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-swedish-porn-scene-exhibition-contexts-8mm-pornography-and-the-sex-film-9781783206827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}