Введение
Фильм 1963 года
Perversion for Profit is a 1963 Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating through Citizens for Decent Literature 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 was 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".</blockquote>
At the time the Chronicle article was written, Perversion was the Prelinger Archive's second most popular download, superseded only by the well known Cold War film Duck and Cover. Like Stein, ephemeral film scholar Rick Prelinger, founder of the Archive, views such films as illuminating historical documents or what he calls "unofficial evidence of everyday life". as well as implying they were child molesters, and that they weakened U. S. "resistance to the Communist masters of deceit." To exemplify corrupting literature, Putnam reads a passage from the pulp fiction novel Sex Jungle (1960) by Don Elliot, a pseudonym for novelist Robert Silverberg. In a 2000 interview, Silverberg explained that the erotic fiction that he published under the Don Elliot pseudonym
was undertaken at a time when I was saddled with a huge debt, at the age of 26, for a splendid house that I had bought. There would have been no way to pay the house off by writing science fiction in that long ago era, when $2500 was a lot to earn from a novel that might take months to write, so I turned out a slew of quick sex novels. I never concealed the fact that I was doing them; it made no difference at all to me whether people knew or not. It was just a job. And it was, incidentally, a job that I did very well. I think they were outstanding erotic novels.
«Извращение ради прибыли» — пропагандистский фильм 1963 года, снятый в формате Eastmancolor и профинансированный Чарльзом Китингом через организацию Citizens for Decent Literature, с закадровым голосом журналиста Джорджа Путнама. Фильм утверждает, что материалы сексуального характера развращают молодых зрителей и читателей, приводя к актам насилия и «извращённым» взглядам на секс, включая склонность к гомосексуальности. Хотя создатели фильма серьёзно полагали, что порнография может подорвать целостность американской культуры, Питер Л. Стайн из San Francisco Chronicle в своей рецензии 2003 года назвал фильм «крикливым и порой комичным». На момент публикации статьи в Chronicle, «Извращение» было вторым по популярности файлом для скачивания в Архиве Прелингера, уступая лишь известному фильму времён холодной войны «Укрытие от бомб». Как и Стайн, Рик Прелинджер, основатель Архива и специалист по эфемерному кино, рассматривает подобные фильмы как важные исторические документы или, как он их называет, «неофициальные свидетельства повседневной жизни», а также указывал на то, что они намекали на педофилию и ослабляли «сопротивление коммунистическим мастерам обмана». В качестве примера развращающей литературы Путнам зачитывает отрывок из бульварного романа «Секс-джунгли» (1960) авторства Дона Эллиота, псевдонима писателя Роберта Сильверберга. В интервью 2000 года Сильверберг объяснил, что эротическая проза, которую он публиковал под псевдонимом Дон Эллиот, была написана в то время, когда я, 26-летний, был обременён огромным долгом за прекрасный дом, который купил. В ту эпоху не было возможности выплатить долг, занимаясь научной фантастикой, когда за роман, написание которого могло занять месяцы, можно было заработать 2500 долларов – а это считалось большой суммой. Поэтому я написал множество быстро написанных эротических романов. Я никогда не скрывал этого, и мне было всё равно, знают об этом люди или нет. Это была просто работа. И, кстати, работа, которую я выполнял очень хорошо. Я считаю, что это были выдающиеся эротические романы.
Perversion for Profit is a 1963 Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating through Citizens for Decent Literature 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 was 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".</blockquote>
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". as well as implying they were child molesters, and that they weakened U. S. "resistance to the Communist masters of deceit." To exemplify corrupting literature, Putnam reads a passage from the pulp fiction novel Sex Jungle (1960) by Don Elliot, a pseudonym for novelist Robert Silverberg. In a 2000 interview, Silverberg explained that the erotic fiction that he published under the Don Elliot pseudonym
was undertaken at a time when I was saddled with a huge debt, at the age of 26, for a splendid house that I had bought. There would have been no way to pay the house off by writing science fiction in that long ago era, when $2500 was a lot to earn from a novel that might take months to write, so I turned out a slew of quick sex novels. I never concealed the fact that I was doing them; it made no difference at all to me whether people knew or not. It was just a job. And it was, incidentally, a job that I did very well. I think they were outstanding erotic novels.
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