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| | Petting to climax: direct cinema, direct sex, 1956-1970 TAKE ONE - Find Articles |
 | | It was not a radical break, he argued, but the inflexion of a curve, a tactical shift rather than a reversal in the deployment of sexuality that had been intensifying in Western culture since the 18th century and incidentally in the cinema as well since its invention at the turn of the 20th century. |
 | | Yes, it was only an inflexion but let's not forget at the same time the perceptions of filmmakers, audiences and critics who lived during the baby-boomer era, who experienced what felt like a monumental dislocation, both in the social field and the cinematic one. |
 | | On the one hand is the Pill, and on the other hand the Nagra, or in general the 16mm sync-sound portable documentary technology that made possible the new documentary aesthetic of direct cinema (or cinema-verite, as North American anglophones usually called it, thinking they were being hip and French). |
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