The Swedish Porn Scene

Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film

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by Mariah Larsson

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Porn films

Keywords

pornographic films, Sweden

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Intellect Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 175 pages
7 x 9 inches (18 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78320-682-7

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Book Presentation:
This 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?
Combining contemporary 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.

Press Reviews:
“This careful analysis will have significant 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.”
Jill Matthews, Australian National University

See the publisher website: Intellect Books