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SUMMARY:Complex Pleasures: Selections from the Erotic Film Collection
DESCRIPTION:The Bonham Centre’s Sexual Representation Collection presents
  “Complex Pleasures: Selections from the Erotic Film Collection\,” on 
 exhibit from August 11 – September 30\, 2022 at Bissell Building\, 5th F
 loor\, 140 St. George Street.\n\nCurated by Camille Intson and Maggie Macd
 onald\, the exhibit features selections from one of Canada’s largest pee
 pshow and erotic film collections\, spanning the entire pre-home video era
 \, now available for research at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity St
 udies at the University of Toronto. Donated by media archivist Albert Steg
  and the George Eastman Museum\, The Erotic Film Collection consists of a 
 diverse range of hardcore and softcore pornographic film and ephemera\, in
 cluding 1\,824 8mm films\, 863 16mm films\, 203 super8 reels\, 302 paper p
 amphlets\, 20 books\, 7 card decks\, 1 box of peepshow stills\, and 1 box 
 of assorted correspondence.\n\nHighlights from the collection include two 
 prints of El satario\, the world’s oldest extant pornographic film\, sil
 ent era stag films\, pre-war hardcore films\, coin-op peepshow films\, and
  films from Latin America\, East and Southeast Asia\, the United States\, 
 and Canada. The collection includes examples of the major modes of pornogr
 aphic film production\, exhibition\, and distribution of the era\, includi
 ng peepshow films\, (originally) illicit stag films\, feature-length films
  shown at grindhouses\, and mass-produced\, commercially sold 8mm films ai
 med at the home market. Documenting the transformation of sexual mores thr
 oughout the 20th century\, the collection charts the entire evolution of t
 he peepshow format from its “softcore” roots to “hardcore” genre. 
 The collection also traces the history of stag film from its professional 
 and semi-professional 35mm origins to amateur and prosumer 16mm formats. T
 he preservation of such a wide range of ephemeral\, amateur\, and orphan h
 istories enables researchers to better understand the history of film and 
 media\, sex work\, gender\, race\, pleasure\, sexuality\, media consumptio
 n\, and global sexual commerce.
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