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Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: Approaching the Softcore Feature Chapter 2 Soft v. Hard Chapter 3 The Disorderly Feminization of Classical Sexploitation: Tracing the Genealogy of Contemporary Softcore Chapter 4 ¿Spicy, but Not Obscene¿: Industrial and Formal Retooling in 1980s Sexploitation Chapter 5 Class, Gender, and Genre in Zalman King¿s ¿Real High Erotica¿: The Conflicting Mandates of Female Fantasy Chapter 6 Sex Is Dangerous, So Satisfy Your Wife: The Softcore Thriller in Its Contexts Chapter 7 Softcore as Serialized (and Feminized) Featurette: Postfeminist Propriety on Late-Night Cable Chapter 8 The Softcore Public: A Cult of Bad Faith? Chapter 9 Corporate Softcore and Its Discontents: Weightlessness and Weightiness at Playboy Enterprises Chapter 10 ¿From Skin to Scream¿: Evolution and Elevation at a Cult Softcore Label Conclusion Whither Softcore? Notes Film- and Videography Works Cited Index
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Erotic films -- United States -- History and criticism.