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Stag film is a term used to describe a type of pornographic film produced clandestinely in the first two-thirds of the 20th Century. Typically, a stag film had certain traits. Stag films were brief in duration (about 12 minutes or less), were silent, depicted explicit or graphic sexual behavior intended to appeal to heterosexual men, and were produced clandestinely due to censorship laws. Stag films were screened for all-male audiences in fraternities or similar locations; observers offered a raucous collective response to the film, exchanging sexual banter and achieving sexual arousal. In Europe, stag films were often screened in brothels. Film historians describe stag films as a primitive form of cinema because they were produced by anonymous and amateur male artists who generally failed in achieving narrative coherence and continuity. Today, many of these films have been archived by the Kinsey Institute; however most stag films are in a state of decay and have no copyright, credits, or acknowledged authorship. The stag film era ended due to the beginnings of the sexual revolution in the 1950s, in combination with the new technologies of the post war era, such as 16mm, 8mm, and the Super 8. Scholars at the (Kinsey Institute ) believe there are approximately 2000 films produced between 1915-1968.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/library/film-contents.html#sexsmart )〕 American stag cinema in general has received scholarly attention first in the mid-seventies by heterosexual males such as in Di Lauro and Gerald Rabkin's ''Dirty Movies'' (1976) and more recently by feminist and queer cultural historians such as in Linda Williams' ''Hard Core: Power Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"'' (1999) and Thomas Waugh's ''Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-screen'' (2001). ==History== Before the age of internet pornography and a general acceptance of the production of pornography, porn was an underground phenomenon. Stag film, also known as blue movies, were made by men for men. The projections of such films were itinerant and were secret exhibitions in brothels or smoker houses. Stag films were an entirely clandestine phenomenon; not until the "porn chic" era of the 1970s would sexually explicit cinema gain any recognition or discussion in mainstream society. Unlike today, satisfaction displayed on-screen, such as male or female orgasm, was not a convention of stag cinema. Instead, there was what Linda Williams called the "meat shot",〔Williams, Linda. pp. 73, 1999.〕 which was a closeup, hardcore depiction of genital intercourse. As are no direct quotes or oral histories by participants of this underground cinema, film scholars understand what they know of this stag films mainly through written accounts. Stag films persisted for such an expansive amount of time, as Williams argues, simply because they were cut off from more public expressions of sexuality.〔Williams, Linda. pp. 84, 1999.〕 The German film ''Am Abend'' ("''In The Evening''"), Argentinian film ''El Satario'', and American film ''A Free Ride'' or ''A Grass Sandwich'', are three of the earliest hardcore pornographic films, produced between the years 1907 and 1915 that have been collected at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.〔Janet Staiger, (''Bad women: regulating sexuality in early American cinema'' ), U of Minnesota Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8166-2625-0, p.15〕 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「stag film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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