Professor Peter Alilunas joins us to talk about his first book: Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016). He details the little-known history of adult cinema on video that actually started in the early 1970s! He describes this type of video technology's use in bars, screening rooms and hotels. And he goes into what it took to create this history from the ground up.
More information about the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291713
Here's a link to his website: https://www.peteralilunas.com/
Here's is a link to the map of NYC video bars that were open as early as 1971!: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wPcD9xSCxzCfdTJu4nHG12j0W6o&usp=sharing
Here's a link to professor Alilunas' ongoing adult film history archive project: https://adultfilmhistoryproject.wordpress.com/
