- Brossura: 213 pagine
- Editore: Headpress (20 marzo 2012)
- Lingua: Inglese
- ISBN-10: 1900486768
- ISBN-13: 978-1900486767
- Peso di spedizione: 299 g
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Superb investigative memoir on outrageous subject
1 luglio 2011
Di poison penn
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Formato:Brossura
I've just completed Beaver Street and could not put it down. There is nothing like it; rather no comprehensive history of modern porn, especially of what is called The Golden Age of porn, the Eighties. The author was right in the thick of things--not just observing--but just detached enough to be objective. He explains how phone sex came about and why there are now laws to protect minors from appearing in porn. But, as the author reveals, there was nothing to protect the porn industry from the likes of the conniving underaged Traci Lords. The author calls his book an investigative memoir. I'd call it a perfect (and perfectly outrageous) mix of personal experience, research, reporting, and conclusions. It's a well written overview of a huge, pervasive industry people know little about.
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Remarkable Book
14 agosto 2011
Di Matthew Flamm
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Robert Rosen's Beaver Street is both an absorbing memoir of a writer's struggle to make a living and a brief history of pornography as it grew from a mom and pop business into the industrial giant it is today. But this well researched, smartly written, surprisingly funny book is also a one of a kind tour through a fast-disappearing underbelly of American popular culture. Rosen, a pre-gentrification New Yorker, fell into porn when it still held a certain countercultural allure. His cast of characters includes hapless, aspiring artists, shrewd businessmen (and businesswomen), all-out neurotics, sexual desperados, and conniving egomaniacs. Kind of a cross section of a broken down IRT local train circa 1980. Beaver Street shows us an alternative Grub Street, one that many of us never knew existed.
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Funny and fascinating memoir
17 luglio 2011
Di R.C. Baker
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Formato:Brossura
Vivid and funny, "Beaver Street" moves at a cinematic pace, a period piece that picks up the story of modern porn where "Boogie Nights" leaves off. This wickedly honest personal memoir of the 80s and 90s sex industry segues from a behind the scenes look at porn shoots to hilarious office banter amid the cramped cubicles of fetish magazines. Rosen is particularly sharp on the one-two punch that brought down the huge porn mag industry--first, the Traci Lords scandal (she was underage when she burned up the screen in such classics as "Talk Dirty To Me III"), followed by the unexpected success of the phone sex business. For a fascinating and funny look at America's id, "Beaver Street" can't be beat.
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