Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini [Paperback]

Isabella Rossellini (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2009

Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: Anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love.

Inspired by the wonderfully odd and humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini and released on DVD for the first time, Green Porno offers a visually arresting and scientifically accurate look at the sex lives of marine animals and other creatures. This book will make you see the animal kingdom as you never have before.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: Anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love.

Inspired by the wonderfully odd and humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini and released on DVD for the first time, Green Porno offers a visually arresting and scientifically accurate look at the sex lives of marine animals and other creatures. This book will make you see the animal kingdom as you never have before.

A Look Inside Green Porno (Click on Images to Enlarge)

As a shrimp, Isabella peels off her outer layer to molt.	Anglerfish attract their prey with a luminous lure.	A moment of passion between two squid.

About the Author

Isabella graced the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Vanity Fair, becoming one of the most iconic models of the 1980s. Her acting career includes such films as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci's Big Night, Peter Weir's Fearless, and The Saddest Music in the World directed by Guy Maddin. Isabella wrote the script to My Dad is 100 Years Old, also directed by Guy Maddin, an homage to her father, the filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, and her mother, Ingrid Bergman. Green Porno is Isabella's directorial debut. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: It Books; Pap/DVD edition (September 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061791067
• ISBN-13: 978-0061791062
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #58 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Zoology > Animal Behavior & Communication

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Artistic Relevance in Short Film, February 17, 2010

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Elliot Lear (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini (Paperback)

Isabella Rossellini has used her status as actor, model, and animal activist to produce a work that adheres to each level of her career while providing an entertaining, informative product. "Green Porno" effectively mixes elements of humor, surrealism, and science to lay bare all the activities one only previously assumed the animal kingdom participated in - debauchery and sexual gratification to the extreme. The short films themselves are self-contained fast facts that both shock and amaze in their collaboration of the extremely suggestive (Rossellini's gyrating hips and oversized sexual organs) and the juvenile (cartoons and puppetry). The end result? A fascinating dive into the sexual behaviours intrinsic to all life, putting forth applicable questions of gender, sexual mores, sadomasochism, and even metaphorical cannibalism. Even greater appreciation must be heaped upon Rossellini's shoulders in her frank debasement of rhetoric and the carnal underscore apparent in many common English phrases. While these elements are abstract and certainly collegiate principals, the material is never pretentious beyond its admittedly odd turn in the final segment "Elephant Seals." Animal rights are brought under scruity by both Isabella and a biologist during the second series "Marine Animals", but the revelations are not as distracting as one might assume.

Although the DVD is toted as an additional feature of the book, I consider the writings secondary to the short films themselves. The stills, however, further fuel the argument that Isabella could land a Lancôme contract even at her current age. In any event, "Green Porno" is a true erotic education from earthworm to whale, and one would be amiss to overlook the sexual artistry.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review of Green Prono, October 30, 2009

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L. Holt (Dunlap, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Porno: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini (Paperback)

I had seen the author interviewed on television, so knew about her very creative work. The pictures in the book showing her costumns for the teaching aspect are super. Her work is delightful, funny, shocking and colorful all at once. The choice of color is great and descriptions really cannot do the book justice. L Holt

5.0 out of 5 stars TOO FUNNY, September 4, 2011

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Wendy Johnston "podlogic" (Tallahassee FL) - See all my reviews
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I saw these some of these videos in London at the Natural History Museum this summer (2011) in a special exhibit called SEXUAL NATURE. I could not believe how well they were done and how hilarious they were. The Museum shop had the book and DVD for sale and I snatch it up, spending way more in British Pounds then if I had waited and gotten it at AMAZON---this is a steal for the price. A wonderful coffee table book for those who have a sense of humor.