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  title info:
    title: Candida Royalle and the sexual revolution
    sub title: a history from below
  name:
    name part: Kamensky, Jane
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life--and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.
  abstract: "Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)--underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist--she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot "sex wars" cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and '80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire. The sexual revolution was Royalle's war--even when other avowed feminists exited the field or became her opponents--and pornography emerged as the arena in which she would wage it. With the founding of her adult film company, Femme Productions, in 1984, Royalle became an owner of the means of pornographic production, infusing her sets with the ideals of labor feminism. On-screen and off-, she was, by turns, exuberant and thoughtful, self-possessed and gleefully shameless. A trailblazer who lived along the cultural fault lines of her generation, she danced at Woodstock, marched for women's liberation, survived the AIDS crisis, and became a talk show regular, interviewed by Phil Donahue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey Jr., Jane Pauley, and many others. As a performer, director, producer, and writer, she moved the needle of her industry. But she never transcended the politics of pleasure. With full access to Royalle's remarkable archive, historian Jane Kamensky has spent years examining the intersection of Royalle's life with the clashes that have defined her era--and ours. Deeply informed by these never-before-studied materials, Kamensky explodes the conventions of biography, with its assumptions about who makes history and how. Written with cinematic verve, Cand…
  table of contents: Prologue: Personal Appearances -- Part I: Normal. Home -- Hepcat in Squaretown -- Peter Pan -- American Girl -- Lock and Key -- Help! -- Part II: Wide Open. Freedom -- Liberation -- The Golden West and the Golden Age -- Becoming -- Making Art and Getting By -- Part III: Shooting Star. Heartbreak -- Porn, Inc. -- Anti-porn, Inc. -- Project Los Angeles, U.S.A.! -- Ripe and Ready -- Part IV: Finally Femme. A New Beginning -- Ink -- Deep Inside -- Tastefully Hardcore -- A War Made for TV -- Pornography of the People -- The Parting of the Red Sea -- Part V: Mainstream. Gypsy Feet -- Sex in the '90s -- Revelations -- Surrender -- The Book of Life -- Home Again -- Epilogue: Transparency.
  note: Jane Kamensky.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 439-498) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Royalle, Candida
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Femme Productions.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Royalle, Candida
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture actors and actresses
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture producers and directors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Erotic films
    topic: Production and direction
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pornography
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pornography
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pornographie
    topic: Aspect politique
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Pornographie
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Films érotiques
    topic: Production et réalisation
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture producers and directors
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Sex educators
  subject:
    topic: Pornography
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pornography
  subject:
    topic: History
  classification: PN2287.R7745 K36 2024
  classification: PN1995.9.S45 K36 2024
  classification: HQ471 .K36 2024
  classification: 306.7082 B
  identifier: 9781324002086
  identifier: 1324002085
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230519
    record change date: 20241018140646.6
    record identifier: in00005619818
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng