Juan Solís
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ABSTRACT Pornographic cinema in the 1920s and 1930s emerged, grew and developed in clandestine conditions. Filming challenged producers to maximize the few resources that were available to them, including locations. This article aims to analyze the strategies employed by a production crew to recodify a single space in which four different short films were shot, on topics as diverse as the life of a bullfighter, a couple's wedding night, and the pleasures of a supposed Arab sultan. The space of these four movies, which belong to the Filmoteca UNAM's silent porn collection, forms part of the scant diegetic attire that clothes the discourse of the carnal and the genital in pornography, but which also reveals the latent imaginary of the era. This single, confined space was metamorphosed, recodified and transformed by cinematic techniques: the camera dissects it just as it does the actors' bodies; it synthesizes the space through framing; it exceeds the location by using unreal camera positions; it exploits it by filming sexual intercourse in all possible positions.
Books by Juan Solís
ABSTRACT Pornographic cinema in the 1920s and 1930s emerged, grew and developed in clandestine conditions. Filming challenged producers to maximize the few resources that were available to them, including locations. This article aims to analyze the strategies employed by a production crew to recodify a single space in which four different short films were shot, on topics as diverse as the life of a bullfighter, a couple's wedding night, and the pleasures of a supposed Arab sultan. The space of these four movies, which belong to the Filmoteca UNAM's silent porn collection, forms part of the scant diegetic attire that clothes the discourse of the carnal and the genital in pornography, but which also reveals the latent imaginary of the era. This single, confined space was metamorphosed, recodified and transformed by cinematic techniques: the camera dissects it just as it does the actors' bodies; it synthesizes the space through framing; it exceeds the location by using unreal camera positions; it exploits it by filming sexual intercourse in all possible positions.