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| bigfoot Senior Member  1295 Posts 7/06 |  Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 3:45PMIt is time I come forward and admit that I simply do not undertsand the art-house porn productions that Michael Ninn has been putting out. Awards, praise and honors continue to rain on the man responsible for unintelligible features such as the recent Sacred Sin and Catherine . Awards? Why? It is not like this is an intellectual puzzle-movie that scholars will piece together and books will be written about. Scholars do not study porn. They might watch a Seymore Butts flick but not because they are interpretting current trends in adult entertainment (plus their writing hand is usually too busy to write anything down). No one will have a doctoral thesis titled, "Art-House Cineman in Modern Pornography: A Detailed Study of the Works of Michael Ninn." In his review of 'Catherine', Roger T Pipe says, "Making revolutionary porn is nothing new to Michael Ninn. He has been re-writing the rule book for well over a decade and could probably fill a swimming pool with all of the awards he has collected in that time." Okay, but who wants to watch this stuff? Critics praise his work as high class and award him with a legacy as a revolutionary. Yet, when fans of adult cinema mostly want to see movies like "Pirates" just like most cinematic fans would rather watch "Casablanca" than "Citizen Kane". I feel like we are living the real-life story of "The Emperor's New Clothes." We, the viewers play the part of the royal valet, too afraid to admit we cannot see the new robes, so we instead say, "Brilliant! A Masterpiece!" Meanwhile, the poor sap (the industry)is walking around naked and the tailor (Michael Ninn) is laughing all the way to the bank with a list of honors and awards. So I stand firmly on the ground, with all my wits about me, yelling at the top of my lungs - "I CANNOT SEE THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES!!!!!" [Link] |
| MASAMUNE Senior Member 1452 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 3:54PM [Link] |
| MASAMUNE Senior Member 1452 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 4:01PM [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 10:22PM [Link] |
| bigfoot Senior Member 1295 Posts 7/06 | Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 1:28PM [Link] |
| bigfoot Senior Member 1295 Posts 7/06 | Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 1:32PM [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 3:04PM Every now and again I'll rent one of his videos to see if anything's changed, but it never has so I never buy anything he directs. [Link] |
| eduardo911 Senior Member 1299 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 6:10PM FitzGerald, Justine (2002), 'You Wan See Jiggy-Jig?' : Getting Hot under the Collar over Indonesian Pornography. In: Inside Indonesia, ISSN 0814-1185, no, 72 (2002), p. 6-7 In Indonesia pornography, which is dealt with under Articles 281, 282, 532, and 533 of the Criminal Code, is blamed for all social ills. Following up complaints police tend to concentrate on interrogating people who are celebrities but who do not enjoy the all-encompassing protection of KKN, and then let them off lightly. Certainly those responsible for reproduction and distribution are never apprehended. Pornography has certainly spread since the ORBA because it can be much more easily distributed. Internet can now be accessed from any reasonably large Indonesian town with warnet (Internet cafes). The author discusses some of the Internet sites like Cerita-Cerita Seru (Way-Out Stories) She also mentions the work of the mysterious Enny Arrow, who may or may not exist.
This article examines how Indonesian gay and lesbian 'zines' - privately circulated, amateur magazines - such as Gaya Hidup Ceria, Jaka, GAYa Nusantara, K-79 (gay), MitraS, GAYa Lestari, and Swara Srikandi (lesbian) contribute to the shaping of homosexual subjectivities under conditions of social marginalization. Based on fieldwork and a textual analysis of the complete corpus (some 7,000 pages) of every gay/lesbian zine ever produced in Indonesia between 1982 and 2001 , it aims to demonstrate the connections between the systems of meaning deployed by the producers and consumers of these zines and Indonesian national discourse. Although clearly derived from Euro-American concepts, Indonesians have developed their own notions of gayness. Gay zines link personal narratives, love and national consciousness in three 'zones of desire'. In the first zone, gay sexuality is portrayed on a continuum between sexual acts and sexual desire (nafsu birahi) to love, with the highest value attached to the latter. The overall dynamic of the narratives is one of discovery followed by separation. The second zone of desire relates gay identity to the Indonesian nation through the choice of language (always Indonesian) often incorporating nationalist terminology and rhetoric, and de-emphasis of local, ethnic, and Euro-American elements.
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| bigfoot Senior Member 1295 Posts 7/06 | Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 7:54PM More importantly, why did you actually spend time looking for them [Link] |
| TonyC Comstock Films 2523 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Dec 11 2006 : 7:58PM [Link] |
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