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Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

19991 Season60m episodes3.7

Documentary

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the history of pornography. This landmark series charts the changes in imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet.

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Director: Chris Rodley, Kate Williams
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 14, 1999
Network: Channel 4

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6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Marc Warren

Self

Henri Pachard

Self

Douglas Rushkoff

Self

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

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SERIES

Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

19991 Season60m episodes3.7

Documentary

TMDB3.7

Votes6

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Oct 14, 1999 · 1h 0m
The Road to Ruin
Opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the Cerne Abbas man to the painted walls of Pompeii, from the carvings of Bourges Cathedral to the obscene pamphlets of the French Revolution.
E2 · Airs Oct 21, 1999 · 1h 0m
The Sacred and Profane
Shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far more dangerous. Indeed pornography was instrumental in fermenting the French Revolution, with shockingly explicit sexual satire directed at the monarchy. Photography was the greatest leap forward ever in the history of pornography. In the nineteenth century, to ask where pornographic photographs were sold is like asking where you can buy drugs today.
E3 · Airs Oct 28, 1999 · 1h 0m
The Mechanical Eye
Examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn magazine. This film also covers the birth of the mail order porn dealer; heralding arguments which have parallels today with debates on internet pornography.
E4 · Airs Nov 4, 1999 · 1h 0m
Twentieth Century Foxy
Covers the rise of the porn film industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an interstitial time. At the end of the 70s the new vehicle for porn was video.
E5 · Airs Nov 11, 1999 · 1h 0m
Sex Lives and Videotape
Shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, replacing the glamour and fantasy of the movies with a real documentary style. The most significant contribution of video was that it turned consumers into producers; the audience picked up cameras and started recording their sex lives on videotape!
E6 · Airs Nov 18, 1999 · 1h 0m
Pornotopia
Looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that we produce, and the way we consume it. We talk to people who say that the Internet has dealt the biggest blow yet to the establishment. Pornography in physical forms - books, magazines, and videos - could always be seized and destroyed, but on the Net, pornography has shed its physical form and gone digital.

Details

Director: Chris Rodley, Kate Williams
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 14, 1999
Network: Channel 4

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Marc Warren

Self

Henri Pachard

Self

Douglas Rushkoff

Self

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Self

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