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Confessions of a Vice Baron:
Sexploitation Filmmakers Meet the Academy

A Roundtable Conference
Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

Saturday, April 26, 2003

The Department of Cinema Studies at New York University announces
a roundtable conference on the history and theory of the
“sex-exploitation” film genres of the 1960s.

“Confessions of a Vice Baron: Sexploitation Filmmakers Meet the
Academy” will focus on the historical and cultural implications of the
various sexually-oriented film genres that proceeded the advent of
theatrical hard-core pornography.  The conference will provide an
opportunity for researchers with wide-ranging interests in issues of
sexual representation and marginal cinema to meet and interact with
key figures from the sexploitation world.

Invited film personalities to date include:

Audrey Campbell
 actress, star of ground-breaking “Madam Olga” film series
David F. Friedman
 producer/distributor, President of the American Adult Film Association
Radley Metzger
 widely-acclaimed director and distributor of sex-exploitation features
Kemper Peacock
 edited numerous films in sexploitation film genre
Joseph W. Sarno
 pioneering writer/director of over 50 sex-exploitation features
C. Davis Smith
 cinematographer/filmmaker, worked with director Doris Wishman
Peggy Steffans-Sarno
 actress and co-producer of numerous sex-exploitation features

plus others...

The meeting will be chaired by Prof. Eric Schaefer, Emerson College,
author of the Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!:  A History of Exploitation
Films, 1919 - 1959 and Prof. Moya Luckett, University of Pittsburgh,
editor of Swinging Single:  Representing Sexuality in the 1960s.  Other
scholars, critics and filmmakers are expected to attend as well.

The roundtable will be held Saturday, April 26th at the Tisch School of
the Arts, New York University, 721 Broadway.  All those with a serious
interest in issues surrounding the subject, regardless of affiliation, are
encouraged to attend.  The conference is free, but all participants
must be registered in accordance with New York University security
policies.  Please submit statement of intent by Monday, April 21, 2003.


Email statement of intent  to participate or questions to:
Michael Bowen:  [log in to unmask]

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