Beaver Street (Paperback)

Robert Rosen

ISBN 10: 1900486768 / ISBN 13: 9781900486767

Editore: Headpress, Manchester, 2011

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Paperback. After spending 16 years working behind the x-rated scenes of porn magazines High Society, Stag and D-Cup, Robert Rosen's controversial commentary lifts the lid on two lucrative decades of mainstream pornography, from the conception of free phone sex and glossy erotica to the economic devastation wrought by the growith of the internet. Rosen points fingers, names names and offers sophisticated analysis alongside his vivd and fascinating personal recollections. Beaver Street is funny and dark, salacious and insightful and never less than completely compelling. A controversial and eyewitness account of the rise and fall of the porn industry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Beaver Street (Paperback)
• Editore: Headpress, Manchester
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1900486768
• ISBN 13: 9781900486767
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup. In BEAVER STREET: A HISTORY OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous decades--from the defining Traci Lords scandal and the conception of `free' phone sex to the burgeoning success of smut in cyberspace in the twenty-first century.

When Robert Rosen came to international awareness with NOWHERE MAN, his critically acclaimed portrait of Lennon's last days, few knew that the author had spent two decades toiling as a publisher, copywriter, editor and photographer in the pornography industry. As a jobbing writer looking to make ends meet, he stumbled into porn at the moment his new employers, publishers of the `adult' magazine HIGH SOCIETY, invented phone sex. Initiating the latest phase in the historical alliance of sex, money and technology, the culmination of `dial-a-porn' would begat the internet `free' pornography boom and ultimately condemn the entire industry to commercial extinction.

The intervening years are the most tumultuous, and lucrative in the history of smut, and Rosen was present at the dead centre of its darkest hour: the infamous TRACI LORDS scandal, and the ensuing moral and legal crusades of the left and right, which would see him and hundreds of colleagues staring prison in the face. In BEAVER STREET, however, this former pornographer bites back.

On the one hand BEAVER STREET is a portrait of an exceptional American workplace, full of tyrants, cynics, perverts and drug addicts, the owners getting filthy rich while Rosen and his colleagues sweat blood to fulfil the demanding and squalid responsibility of ensuring millions have something new to masturbate to every other week.

On the other hand (and this is why the author has christened his work an investigative memoir), Rosen's intellect, curiosity, insight and penmanship hoists BEAVER STREET high above the average porn memoir, with Rosen not only unveiling the mechanics of the porn profiteers, but fixing the unbelievable events that rocked his entire sordid career in their fascinating political, technological and cultural contexts.

Illustrated. Includes 8 colour plates.

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert Rosen is the author of the international bestseller Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon. His work has appeared in a wide array of publications all over the world, including Uncut, Mother Jones, The Soho Weekly News, La Repubblica, VSD, Proceso, Reforma and El Heraldo. Over the course of a controversial career, Rosen has edited pornographic magazines and an underground newspaper; has written speeches for the Secretary of the Air Force; and has been awarded a Hugo Boss poetry prize. Rosen was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City with his wife, Mary Lyn Maiscott, a writer, editor and singer. For more information about Robert Rosen, please go to robertrosennyc.com.