THE OTHER HOLLYWOOD: AN UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF THE PORN FILM INDUSTRY, BY LEGS MCNEIL AND JENNIFER OSBORNE

Legs McNeil, author of the acclaimed Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk, brings together in this bold and revealing new chronicle the voices of over a hundred interviewees to tell the story of the birth and rise of the pornographic film industry, from calendar girls and the first nude films of the 1950s to the present day. Following the evolution of three constantly clashing groups over five decades—the performers and directors who made the films; the shady underworld figures who financed and distributed them; and the law enforcement agencies that tried to shut down the industry—McNeil compiles dozens of stories that range from the epic and the humorous to the sordid and the poignant, from the making of Deep Throat and the Wonderland murders to Savannah's suicide and the home movies of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee; and, of course, the Traci Lords scandal. Through the voices of characters like Marilyn Chambers, Linda Lovelace, Fred Lincoln, John Holmes, Ron Jeremy, Traci Lords, Ginger Lynn, Jill Kelly, Nina Hartley, John Stagliano, and Sharon Mitchell, The Other Hollywood gives the porn industry what was missing in all its previous chronicles: a vivid, tragicomic, and irresistible humanity.

• Number of Pages: 688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Approximate dimensions: 16.5 x 4.5 x 24 cm