Sex in the Shadows
a part of YBCA's February Film Series, "Bros Before Hos"
- When
- Thu Feb 23, 2012
- Where
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $6 - $8
- Tags
- Movies
Description
Bros Before Hos:Masculinity and its Discontents
YBCA's February Film Series
“Sex in the Shadows”
Presented by Albert Steg
Thu, Feb 23, 7:30pm
Before VHS players and then the internet rendered hardcore pornography ubiquitous and banal, American stag films, often produced and exhibited illegally and viewed almost exclusively by men, held considerable power to shock, entertain, arouse and educate. Tonight's program, a series of short subjects from the 1920s through the 1960s, will show that they still retain this power. At times drolly amusing, at others appallingly misogynistic, the films are always 100% American and can be usefully viewed as transgressive cinematic monologues suppressed by the moral standards of their day. (A part of YBCA's February film series, Bros Before Hos.)
A film collector from Cambridge, Mass., Albert Steg left a career teaching English literature in order to pursue work in film preservation and archiving. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Center for Home Movies. Steg runs “Zampano’s Playhouse,” a traveling film series drawn from his growing 16mm and 8mm collection of educational, industrial, ephemeral and “blue” movies.
Where:
YBCA Screening Room
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Public Info:
415-978-2787 or ybca.org
Admission per film: $8 Regular/$6 YBCA members
More Info
- Link
- http://tickets.ybca.org/single/psDetail.aspx?psn=14653
- Call
- 415-978-2787 (Box Office)
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