Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and feminism. Erotic 90s... more

American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, starring James Spader as an... more

The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean, all-American heartthrob, building on a sexual persona... more

The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a national conversation about whether or not... more

Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed the mark by... more

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that... more

In a time of bombastic blockbusters (and Reagan’s re-election), two auteurs defy the norms by releases violent films about sexual... more

While the music video was still in its infancy as a cultural phenomenon, two films were released that were accused... more

1982 saw the release of three hit high school-set comedies about sex: Porky’s, The Last American Virgin and Fast Times... more

The New Hollywood directors of the late 1960s and 70s were the first generation of Hollywood filmmakers to grow up... more