Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy and Julia Roberts in the early 90s (Erotic 90’s, Part 2)
The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s career, and turned Julia Roberts into the biggest female movie star of the era. We’ll dissect the gender poli...
4 Huhti 20231h 8min
Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (Erotic 90’s, Part 1)
Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and feminism. Erotic 90s begins with a prologue about the disastrous rollout of NC-17 –the X rating’s replac...
28 Maalis 20231h 24min
1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)
American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, starring James Spader as an impotent man who gets off on filming women talking about sex. Vide...
21 Kesä 20221h 38min
1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)
The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean, all-American heartthrob, building on a sexual persona sparked the year before with the neonoir No Way Ou...
14 Kesä 20221h 19min
1987: Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10)
The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a national conversation about whether or not women can “have it all” – “it all” meaning both careers and mar...
7 Kesä 20221h 18min
1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)
Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed the mark by everyone who made it – including director Adrian Lyne, stars Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, ...
31 Touko 20221h 17min
1985: Fear Sex. Jagged Edge & AIDS (Erotic 80s Part 8)
Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was released that transposed the new climate of sexual fear int...
24 Touko 202259min
1984: "Vioporn," Body Double and Crimes of Passion (Erotic 80s Part 7)
In a time of bombastic blockbusters (and Reagan’s re-election), two auteurs defy the norms by releases violent films about sexual obsession, sparking a controversial mini-trend which one critic dubs “...
17 Touko 20221h 13min
