Perversion for Profit is a 1965 Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. The film argues that sexually explicit materials corrupt young viewers and readers, leading to acts of violence and "perverted" attitudes regarding sex—including inclination toward homosexuality. Although Perversion for Profit is serious in its suggestion that pornography could erode the integrity of American culture, Peter L. Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in a 2003 review that it was "shrill and sometimes comical".
Today, Perversion for Profit is in the public domain, and it has become popular on the Prelinger Archives website and on YouTube. As Peter L. Stein observes in an article for the San Francisco Chronicle, however, the film also has considerable historical significance, serving as a sort of time capsule of pornography from the era as well as an example of historical concerns regarding media influence:
...as the parade of girlie magazine covers, men's physique pictorials and campy S&M leaflets continues, the film betrays a kind of prurience the filmmakers could hardly have intended. What results is a remarkable visual record of midcentury underground literature and sexual appetites, and a gloss on the values of the society that condemned them.
At the time the Chronicle article was written, Perversion was the Prelinger Archive's second most popular download, superseded only by the well-known Cold War film Duck and Cover. Like Stein, ephemeral film scholar Rick Prelinger, founder of the Archive, views such films as illuminating historical documents or what he calls "unofficial evidence of everyday life".
Suggestions de films similaires à Perversion for Profit
Il y a 8 films ayant les mêmes acteurs, 8965 ayant les mêmes genres cinématographiques, 11671 films qui ont les mêmes thèmes (dont 0 films qui ont les mêmes 8 thèmes que Perversion for Profit), pour avoir au final 70 suggestions de films similaires.
Si vous avez aimé Perversion for Profit, vous aimerez sûrement les films similaires suivants :
, 1h36 OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDocumentaire, Policier ThèmesL'enfance, Maladie, Sexualité, La pédophilie, Documentaire sur le droit, Documentaire sur la santé, Documentaire sur la maltraitance des enfants, Folie, Le handicap, Maltraitance des enfants Note69% Whitney, at the time a Wall Street executive, returns to his rural hometown of Carlotta, California, and interviews his family members about his maternal stepgrandfather, Melvin E. Just. Just sexually abused 10 of Whitney's relatives, including his mother, uncle, aunts and step-aunts, some as young as 2 years old. The consequeneces have resulted in dysfunction spanning three generations of the family. Whitney reveals he was also molested by his uncle, who now lives incestuously with his half-sister. Whitney's aunts discuss their struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, and bouts of homelessness and prostitution.