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Babylon Blue : An Illustrated History of Adult Cinema 1960-1998(Creation Cinema Collection)

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That's about all this books is, a very long list of adult titles and perfromers, a filmography, if you will. Not much detail or background provided on any of the films or performers. It's rather dry and hard to get through, despite it being fairly light.

But the big kicker was several statements I found that were obviously wrong, just general knowledge things-not even specifically related to adult film. It seems that this publisher doesn't employ a fact-checker or a proofreader. Additionally, the author is British and apparantly doesn't have a very good grasp on American law as it applies to obscenity and adult films.

Finally, although the book is entitled "an illustrated history of adult cinema" the illustrations are mostly video box covers and very few of those or the other photos have any sort of caption which makes them rather disjointed from the accompanying text.

Author David Flint makes it clear that he likes adult movies and has a vast amount of knowledge regarding them. This book cronicals the rise of the adult film and mentions all the movers and shakers who brought it to life.

But that is about all there is. He never spend enought time exploring the people, the times or even really the movies themselves to make this anything more than an advanced filmography of adult cinema.

He mentions in the preface that he does not intent this to be a comprehensive book, but the omissions keep it from becoming anything more than an interesting read.

Also his writing skills leave a little to be desired with the term GRUBBY being used to describe anything he finds distateful over and over again. He also has the habit of promising information later that never arrives (Such as exploring how AIDS has affected the industry during the nineties).

An okay book to begin with, but I would suggest a subscription to Michelle Clifford's METASEX fanzine for the real education on these films.

The cover of this book is perhaps the best part. The text itself makes a very interesting reading for all those interested in the subject; and it's the only book I could find that has substantive materials. It covers American as well as foreign adult film industries.

But I don't like the writing that much. I can't say exactly why. I wish the writing had been clearer and the presentation a little more compact.

Still, a high recommendation to all adult film lovers. ;-)

I think it's contain a lot of name and people who are in That kind of business. But it's not really detail in depth. The bio of the people and the interview was good. The graphic is bad. Dont's expect about the explict picture. It's about porn but not porn stuff.