Prestige and prurience : the decline of the American art house and the emergence of sexploitation, 1957-1972

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dc.contributor.advisorSchatz, Thomas, 1948-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBerg, Charles R.en
dc.creatorMetz, Daniel Curranen
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-01T17:32:53Zen
dc.date.available2010-11-01T17:32:53Zen
dc.date.available2010-11-01T17:33:10Zen
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-11-01T17:33:10Zen
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dc.description.abstract“Prestige and Prurience: The Decline of the American Art House and the Emergence of Sexploitation, 1957-1972” presents a historical narrative of the art house theatre during the 1960s and its surrounding years, examining the ways in which art theatres transformed into adult theatres during the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning in earnest in the immediate post-war period, art houses in America experienced a short period of growth before stagnating in the middle 1950s. With the release in 1957 of the erotically charged Brigitte Bardot film …And God Created Woman, a new era of art houses followed, one that is characterized by the emergence of sexualized advertising, content and stars. As the 1960s came, sex films like The Immoral Mr. Teas played on art film marketing strategies and even screened in many art houses. Gradually, sexploitation films began to dominate art house programs and replace European art films and Hollywood revivals. In this transitional period, however, sexploitation films used key strategies to emulate many art film characteristics, and likewise art films used sexploitation techniques in order to maintain marketability for American distribution and exhibition. By studying the promotion and programming used by art house theatres during this period, this thesis identifies and announces a number of key trends within the dynamic period for art houses. The period is distinguished by its convergence of practices related to prestigious and prurient signs, merging art and sex in ways unique to the era and to the circumstances by which sex films infiltrated art houses and art films pandered to salacious interests. It presents a new perspective on the history of art houses, art cinema, American exhibition, sexploitation films, hardcore pornography and censorship.en
dc.description.departmentRadio-Television-Filmen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1383en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectArt houseen
dc.subjectSexploitationen
dc.subjectHardcoreen
dc.subjectFilm historyen
dc.subjectArten
dc.subjectSexen
dc.subjectFilm exhibitionen
dc.subjectMovie theatreen
dc.subjectBrigitte Bardoten
dc.subjectThe Immoral Mr. Teasen
dc.subjectArt filmen
dc.subjectEuropean art filmen
dc.subjectAmbiguous art filmen
dc.subjectSex kittenen
dc.subjectI am curious (yellow)en
dc.subjectBlow-upen
dc.subjectStanton art theatreen
dc.subjectLornaen
dc.subjectI, a womanen
dc.subjectCensorshipen
dc.subjectProduction codeen
dc.subjectHollywooden
dc.subjectLittle cinemaen
dc.subjectSure seateren
dc.titlePrestige and prurience : the decline of the American art house and the emergence of sexploitation, 1957-1972en
dc.type.genrethesisen
thesis.degree.departmentRadio-Television-Filmen
thesis.degree.disciplineRadio-Television-Filmen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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