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Exposed: Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit Series Parade a Bevy of Brazen Gender Roles

Exposed: Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit Series Parade a Bevy of Brazen Gender Roles

These Forbidden Fruit sexploitation films by Robert C. Dertano and Lillian Hunt function as snapshots of a moment in baggy-pants comedy and terpsichorean art.

Huxters and Do-Gooders and the “Forbidden Fruit” Film Series

Huxters and Do-Gooders and the “Forbidden Fruit” Film Series

Have a peak behind the censored curtain, if you dare, with Dwain Esper's Marihuana and Narcotic, Crane Wilbur's Tomorrow's Children and Harry J. Revier's Child Bride. These exploitation films are certain to provoke.

Birds, Bees, and Desperate Housewives, or How Joe Sarno Made Sex Look Good

Birds, Bees, and Desperate Housewives, or How Joe Sarno Made Sex Look Good

Whereas Sweden was commonly held up as a political-economic "Third Way" between the capitalist West and the communist Iron Curtain, the budding or chafing sexual revolution in cinema was having its own Third Way in the form of Swedish-American filmmaker Joe Sarno.

Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?

Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?

Film history work Lewd Looks argues that sexploitation films provided an underground and important bridge between the end of old Hollywood and the start of something else.

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