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Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization

★ 3.7/10•1999•1h 0m•Documentary
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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.

Chris Rodley · Director

Kate Williams · Director

Dev Varma · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 14, 1999

Episodes

E160m

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.

Oct 14, 1999

E260m

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.

Oct 21, 1999

E360m

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.

Oct 28, 1999

E460m

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.

Nov 4, 1999

E560m

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!

Nov 11, 1999

E660m

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.

Nov 18, 1999

Actors

Marc Warren

Marc Warren

Self

Henri Pachard

Henri Pachard

Self

Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

Self

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Self

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