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Pagni, Charlotte. "Hollywood Does Kinsey: Cinema, Sexology, and Cultural Regulation, 1948-1968," American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 2003.
Cinema and sexology have been profoundly linked as technologies of cultural regulation since the early 1900s. The sensational publication of the Kinsey reports on male (1948) and female (1953) sexual behavior symbolically inaugurated a new era of sexual frankness in American culture and in the cinema. As such, the Reports played a key role in the film industry’s transition from the Production Code Administration to the Classification and Ratings Administration in 1968, and spawned a cycle of mainstream films appropriating the practice of sex research as a narrative premise. A critical analysis of these films and artifacts of their production, promotion, and reception provides insight on the function of sexological discourses in the process through which significant shifts in the cultural meanings of gender and class were negotiated in the American cinema of that period.
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