John Minson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a John Minson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: John Minson

John Minson made the documentary Playpen of the Damned about the Los Angeles adult film industry and has spent the last two decades immersed in the history and criticism of adults-only cinema. He has an MA in English Literature from the University of London and really ought to know better.

Exploitation & Erotica

The Wages of Skin: The Irrepressible Rise of All-American Smut

November 1, 2007

Linda Lovelace meets the Forty Thieves Having seen how sixties San Francisco spawned a generation of irreverent young celluloid porn barons — “Before The Green Door” in Bright Lights 57[…]

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Before The Green Door: The Mitchell Brothers, the Counterculture, and Hard-core’s Beginnings

August 1, 2007

It came from San Francisco This is the first of a two-part article exploring how hard-core porn evolved through the efforts of Jim and Artie Mitchell and other pioneers, with[…]

Author: John Minson

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