Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
About the Authors ix
Introduction Bruce Johnson 1
1 Sound Decisions: Interviews with Ole Ege Bruce Johnson 12
2 Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Cliché: Erotic Plenitude in the Films of Russ Meyer Mark Evans Matt Burgess 38
3 The Push/Pull Game: The Dynamics of Sound in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky Lesley Chow 54
4 Depraved Desire: Sadomasochism, Sexuality and Sound in mid-1970s Cinema Clarice Butkus 66
5 The Peculiar 'Love' Music in Oshima's Ai no korida James Wierzbicki 89
6 Lust in Space: Science Fiction Themes and Sex Cinema (1960-82) Philip Hayward 102
7 Zero Gravity: Science Fiction Themed Porn Cinema and Its Soundtracks 1990-2010 Philip Hayward Emil Stoichkov 125
8 "It's Gotta Be That New Wave Music": Music in New Wave Hookers Carries the Joke Laura Wiebe Taylor 140
9 Making "a Mall Movie about a Man with a 13-inch Penis": Popular Music Representations of Pornographic Intention Liz Giuffre 158
10 Musical Loops: Eyes Wide Shut…Ears Wide Open Kevin Clifton 174
11 Multiple Positions: Sound, Sex and Aural Dominance in 9 Songs Andrea Warren 190
12 Music, Image, Orgasm: Getting off on the Shortbus Marianne Tatom Letts 203
13 In Extremis: The Roots, Soundscapes and Significations of Twenty-first-century Zombie Porn Ralph G. Marsh 217
Index 234