Andreas Rauh's Reviews > The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia
by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia
Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne have used the same formula to construct the story telling in this book as in Please Kill Me. It's a chopped up, blended, and then stitched story built from short snippets of interviews from people that have had some close connection with the porn industry. This is not how I prefer to have my Oral History presented because it becomes harder to distinguish the individual voices within the book in favor of a coherent story, even when testimonies are contradictory.
The highlight of the book is by far the treatment that the authors gave to all their contributors. There is no moral judgment of characters and they are presented in a manner that reveals their innermost and intrinsic humanity.
If it wasn't my dislike for the chopped up interviews I would have given it 5 stars. A must read for anyone interested in the subject.
The highlight of the book is by far the treatment that the authors gave to all their contributors. There is no moral judgment of characters and they are presented in a manner that reveals their innermost and intrinsic humanity.
If it wasn't my dislike for the chopped up interviews I would have given it 5 stars. A must read for anyone interested in the subject.
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