Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film

Mcgillivray, David

ISBN 10: 1999744152 / ISBN 13: 9781999744151

Published by Wolfbait, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film
• Publisher: Wolfbait
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999744152
• ISBN 13: 9781999744151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film was first published in 1992. It was the first serious study of British soft porn, and it was highly influential. It was filmed by BBC TV in 1995 and led to the film seasons, video releases and blogs on the subject that have continued to the present day. The 25th-anniversary edition, to be published in 2017 is vastly expanded and updated with new chapters, design and illustrations. It brings the story of British prudishness and censorship bang up to date.

About the Authors

David McGillivray has been a writer, producer and performer for radio, television, stage and screen since 1964. He is best known for a series of exploitation films - among them House of Whipcord, Frightmare and Satan's Slave - he wrote in the 1970s. In the 1980s David toured with his theatre company Entertainment Machine and began writing for the comedian Julian Clary, a job he has maintained to this day. He wrote the first edition of his seminal history of British sex films, Doing Things, in 1992. The BBC filmed it in 1995. From 2004 David wrote and produced a series of short horror films later joined together as Worst Fears. In 2015 he produced the notorious film Trouser Bar. The second edition of Doing Rude Things followed in 2016. David's autobiography, Little Did You Know, will be published in 2019.

Pamela Green was a popular model of the 1950s. She was photographed by such photographers as Bill Brandt, Zoltán Glass and Angus McBean. In 1955 she set up Kamera Publications with her then partner George Harrison Marks. She appeared in the cult films Naked as Nature Intended (1961) and Peeping Tom (1960), a psychological thriller directed by the celebrated Michael Powell.