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Representations (2008) 103 (1): 107–135.
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Phil Ford; Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica. Representations 1 August 2008; 103 (1): 107–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2008.103.1.107
In the 1950s, exotica was a genre of pop music that specialized in depicting imaginary exotic paradises and conventionalized natives. By the late 1960s, exotica pop had disappeared, but its tropes of temporal and spatial disjuncture persisted, structuring the music, visual art, and social theory of the utopian counterculture. While 1950s and 1960s kinds of exotica differ in their preferred imaginary destinations, both raise the question of what intermediate shades between belief and disbelief are demanded by aestheticized representations of human life. This essay theorizes exotica as a mode of representation governed by a peculiar mode of reception—one of willed credulity enabled by submission to its spectacle. What exotica demands is what intellectuals are least likely to give, though, and the peculiar pleasures of exotica spectacle are denigrated or rendered invisible in the hermeneutic regime.
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If you're going to make it sleazy, you better make it sexy.
Haven't you heard? It's the Summer of Sleaze. While sleazecore might be taking over the fashion world, it's hardly been a new thing when it comes to cinema. What's more sleazy than an erotic film, one that pushes the boundaries of desire and sexual taboos? These movies run the gamut from cult classics to smutty art house films. If you're going to make it sleazy, you better make it sexy.
John Waters has always tested his audiences' tolerance for bad taste. His 2004 sex farce stars Tracy Ullman as a uptight, prim and proper Baltimore woman whose inhibitions run wild after she suffers from a concussion and becomes a sex addict.
Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger star in the movie Fifty Shades of Gray wishes it could be. A wealthy business man named John Gray seduces a young gallery assistant, Elizabeth. Their relationship becomes more complex as she finds herself succumbing to his demands, slowly allowing him to cross an ever-moving line.
Mickey Rourke was undeniably the sleazy sex god of the '80s, and he stars in this film by erotica master Zalman King as a wealthy businessman who seduces an innocent young lawyer (Carré Otis) amid the exotic carnival of Rio.
Coinciding with the pop performer's Erotica phase, Body of Evidence stars Madonna as a woman who is charged with the murder of her lover—who died from erotic asphyxiation. Willem Dafoe plays her lawyer, who cannot help but become entangled by her sadomasochistic charms.
Vincent Gallo's follow-up to Buffalo '66 caused a stir at Sundance following its negative reviews (and the actor-director's borderline violent response to Roger Ebert's initial review). But its infamy will forever live on thanks to the scene in which Chloe Sevigny gives her co-star an actual blowjob on camera.
Director Just Jaeckin's shocking film stirred up audiences on both sides of the Atlantic when it was released in 1974, becoming perhaps the first mainstream softcore film to hit theaters (with an X-rating attached in the States). Sylvia Kristel stars as the titular character, the bored wife of a diplomat who has a serious of trysts while her husband is away.
Bruce Willis plays a damaged former psychologist who finds himself attracted to a mysterious woman, who fulfills his most erotic desires. While the relationship becomes manipulative, it also becomes dangerous—as the former doctor is stalked by his patient's murderer who will stop at nothing to kill him before he discovers their identity.
Famed critic Roger Ebert wrote a single screenplay in his career: this sequel-parody hybrid to Valley of the Dolls , directed by legendary sexploitation director Russ Meyer. Full of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an undisputed camp classic and an unbelievable far-out trip that descends into total madness by its final reel.
Make no mistake: The lead character in this two-part, four-hour art film is very horny as the title would suggest. But it's a Lars Von Trier movie, and thus potentially less sexy than you think.
Matthew is an American studying in Paris during the tumultuous spring of 1968. There he meets a French brother and sister duo who share a love of cinema and debauchery. The three begin a complex friendship that borders on taboo when the three push the boundaries of desire.
Gaspar Noé is no stranger to provocation, but his arthouse sexual drama took full advantage of the technological marvels of 3-D. While, uh, objects won't be flying out of your normal TV or laptop screen when you stream this one online, the titillation remains intact.
Paul Thomas Anderson's ensemble-driven film offers a comic—and at times dark—look at the heyday of the American porn industry in the late '70s and early '80s. Its infamous for its final scene (featuring Mark Wahlberg's prosthetic penis), but it also nails the sleazy style of the era.
Director Catherine Breillat has been labeled a "porno auteuriste;" the term is most applicable with her 1999 drama in which a French teacher, frustrated with her boyfriend's disregard for intimacy and affection, searches elsewhere to fulfill her insatiable desires.
A Englishman named Matt and an American woman named Lisa form a relationship based on two common interests: seeing rock shows and fucking. Michael Winterbottom's film is part-concert montage, part boundary-pushing sex film—with its actors actually having intercourse on film.
Lawrence Kasden might very well have directed the last great American noir film with this '80s Double Indemnity of sorts featuring William Hurt as a pretty dim lawyer and Kathleen Turner as the requisite femme fatale. While its complex plot harkens to the old-fashioned films of the genre, Body Heat ups the ante with hot and heavy love scenes that would've made Barbara Stanwyck blush.
Brian De Palma pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and Vertigo with this sexy, voyeuristic thriller. A down-on-his-luck actor discovers that his girlfriend is cheating on him and accepts a fellow actor's invitation to housesit in his luxe modern home in the Hollywood Hills. Soon he becomes entranced with his neighbor: a woman who strips in front of her window every night. But his growing obsession leads him down some dark and twisted paths, and soon he's suspected of murder.
Meg Ryan sheds her America's Sweetheart status for this psychological thriller from Oscar-winning writer-director Jane Campion. Ryan plays a New York City schoolteacher named Frannie who embarks on a sexual awakening with a cop (Mark Ruffalo), who's attempting to solve the murder of a young woman whose body turned up outside Frannie's apartment.
Wild Things is notorious for two things: Kevin Bacon's exposed penis and a threesome between Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and Matt Dillon. The latter is mostly an excuse to feature then-unknown Richards topless. Despite its mainstream soft-core nature, the movie is an otherwise overwrought, trashy neo-noir.
A serial killer is stalking and murdering gay men in New York City, and Al Pacino's detective must go undercover in the dark underbelly of the S&M scene to find him. William Friedkin's thriller was controversial upon its release, but it's become a cult classic that also serves as a striking time capsule of pre-AIDS queer life.
One of the biggest movie disasters of the '90s turned into a beloved camp classic. Saved by the Bell alum Elizabeth Berkley delivers a downright insane performance as Nomi Malone, a determined drifter who arrives in Las Vegas and goes from stripper to top-billing showgirl. Two decades after its release, it's still a movie you have to see to believe.
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Taboo is a BBC television drama series produced by Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker. It premiered on BBC One in the United Kingdom, on 7 January 2017 and on FX in the United States, on 10 January 2017. The eight-episode series was created by Steven Knight , Tom Hardy , and his father, Chips Hardy , based on a story written by Tom and Chips Hardy.
In 1814, James Delaney (Tom Hardy) returns to England after spending twelve years in Africa, following the death of his father and the approaching end of Great Britain's war with the United States . Taboo explores the dark side of 19th-century London, its political and business corruption, gangs, the misery of the working class, and the increase in wealth of the rich.
Kristoffer Nyholm and Anders Engström each directed four episodes of the first series (season). Max Richter composed the score.
The series has received generally favourable reviews, with critics praising Hardy's performance, visual presentation, and pacing.
Taboo was created by Steven Knight, Tom Hardy and his father, Edward "Chips" Hardy, and is based on a story written by Tom and Chips Hardy. [2] Knight and Tom Hardy previously worked together in the 2013 film Locke and the TV series Peaky Blinders , which premiered in 2013. [3] The first series was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm and Anders Engström. [3] The music was composed by Max Richter . [4]
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