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Adam Film World (AFW) and Adam Film World Guide (AFWG) were magazines about pornographic film, published in the United States, starting in 1966 as ''The Adam Film Quarterly.'' The first issue's cover price was $1 and the cover story was about ''The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill'', an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth.〔("Adam Film Quarterly" ), ''The Site of Movie Magazines''. Retrieved 4 July 2012.〕 Knight Publishing Corp. had launched ''Adam'' magazine in the 1950s as an attempt to follow ''Playboy's'' success. ''Adam Film Quarterly'' was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry.〔 Originally, like ''Playboy'', the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars such as Orson Welles or Judy Garland. However, by 1969 it was renamed ''Adam Film World'' and issued monthly.〔("Adam Film World" ), ''The Site of Movie Magazines''. Retrieved 4 July 2012.〕 The Internet Adult Film Database owes its start to Peter Van Aarle, who began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in ''Adam Film World'' starting in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.iafd.com/peter.asp )〕 ''Adam Film World'' was called "one of the industry's leading trade publications" in 1994 by the Associated Press.〔John Horn, Associated Press Writer, "(VCRs have made 'adult' films big business )," ''Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star'', Dec. 2, 1994, p. B3.〕 In his 2001 book ''Pornography and Sexual Representation'', Joseph Slade states, "Extremely valuable are the reports, reviews and gossip of ''Adam Film World and Adult Video Guide'', the oldest American monthly devoted to explicit cinema and generally more reliable than similar magazines, though the information on actors and actresses should be approached with caution. Best described as a fan magazine, ''Adam Film World'' hypes the careers of performers for a credulous audience, but partly for that reason it is unparalleled as a guide to the mores and customs of the porn subculture."〔Joseph W. Slade, ''Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide'', Volume I, Greenwood Press, 2001. ISBN 0-313-31519-1〕 Slade pointed out that the magazine's Interviews with performers were, to an extent, similar to celebrity interviews in popular mainstream magazines: "Actors and actresses usually begin by talking about their parents, their adolescence, their own children, lovers, the importance of grooming, then move on to discussions of augmented breasts, relative penis sizes, favorite costars and directors, referred techniques of oral, vaginal, or anal sex, striptease dancing on tour as a sideline and—most important—their fan clubs or their 900-telephone numbers."〔 The publication is also notable for having issued the first movie awards for excellence in pornographic film, first with the X-Caliber Awards in 1975,〔Thomas H. Hilton, "Film World's Own Porn Awards", ''Adam Film World'', Vol. 5, No. 12, August 1976, pp. 34-37.〕 then replacing them with the AFWG awards starting in 1981 when its sister publication, ''Adam Film World Guide'', was launched.〔''Adam Film World Guide'', Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1981.〕 Today the role of adult film awards has been mostly supplanted by ''Adult Video News,'' with its AVN Awards, which launched a decade later. ''Adam Film World Guide'', in turn, spawned an annual ''Directory of Adult Films'' starting in 1984. The annuals were "important directories of...hard-core films and videos of the previous eighteen months, with lists of notable films of the past, capsule reviews that rate eroticism from 'warm' to 'volcanic,' addresses of distributors and retail outlets, brief biographies of actors, directors, and producers and indexes by theme, director, and performer."〔 Edward S. Sullivan was the first editor of ''Adam Film World'', followed briefly in 1984 by John Zeus, while former pornographic film actor Tim Connelly was editor, under the name Jeremy Stone, from 1985 to 2003. Connelly, as Stone, was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in the Fifth Estate category in 1998.〔(XRCO Hall of Fame )〕 Knight Publishing eventually expanded to add several other magazine titles such as ''Adam Black Video Illustrated'', ''Adam Gay Video'', and ''Cinema X Monthly'' and several others, but ''Adam Film World'' remained the flagship of the group until it was discontinued in the late 1990s in favour of ''Adam Film World Guide''. By 2008, owner Bentley Morriss put the company up for sale. When a buyer was not found, the magazine empire folded.〔Tod Hunter, "('Adam Film World' Reportedly on Hold Pending Sale )", Xbiz.com, July 2, 2008. (Retrieved Sept. 25, 2012.)〕 ==X-Caliber Awards== The ''Adam Film World'' annual X-Caliber Awards based their selection of winners "largely on the votes of readers who are members of the audiences of the adult theaters."〔Thomas H. Hilton, "The First Annual Erotica Awards", ''Adam Film World'', December 1977, pp. 18-21.〕 although after the popular vote is counted, "an editorial panel makes the final selections".〔Frank Thistle, "The Second Annual Erotica Awards," ''Adam Film World'', January 1979, pp. 24-27, 72.〕 The winners were announced annually starting with the August 1976 issue for films released the previous year. By the second year, the Z-Caliber Awards, for the worst movies, were also introduced.〔Thomas H. Hilton, "The Porn Awards", ''Adam Film World'', Vol. 6, No. 6, August 1977, pp. 16-17.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Film World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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