Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema (1968 - 1972)
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"Chacun a sa manie; nous ne devons jamais ni blâmer , ni nous étonner de celle de personne."--The 120 Days of Sodom (1785|1904) by Marquis de Sade "Everybody has their own mania; we mustn't blame anybody's nor be amazed by anybody's." A better translation is: "to each his own peculiar mania, we ought never blame nor wonder at another's." --Seaver and Wainhouse translation "On this subject we'd like to point out two extremely entertaining movies which display a veritable catalogue of Freud, Jung, Ellis and so on psycho-analytically-inspired sexual perversions, marked by an explicit erotic component: Nel Labirinto del Sesso (The Labyrinth of Sex, 1969) by Alfonso Brescia - featuring, incredibly so, the scientific advice of Dr. Emilio Servadio - and, above all the delirious Rivelazioni di uno Psichiatra sul Mondo Perverso del Sesso (1973) by Renato Polselli."--Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema (1968 - 1972) (2004) by Piselli and Morrocchi |
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Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema, Incredibly strange movie fantasies from "cineromanzi" 1968-1972 (2004) is a film history book by Stefano Piselli and Riccardo Morrocchi, published by Glittering Images with contributions by Jean-Pierre Bouyxou.
The book features the most kinky scenes from 14 cineromanzi of 14 films (see list below).
Its cover is based on the film poster of Jess Franco's Paroxismus. English and Italian text.
Page two has a collage of Bigfilm, Cinesex, Cinestop, Topfilm covers.
From the publisher
Jess Franco the libertine, Ella the nymphomaniac, Gilberto the mad sadist, Sayer the aesthete sadist, Mary the homicidal mantis, Ahmed the debauched, X. the vicious politician, X. the fanatic and moralist judge, Kay the sexually dissatisfied, the mysterious Greta, Diana the arrogant mistress and her black servant Janita, Santino the foot fetichist, the psychopatic Dr. Lyutak, the submissive Marcia, the refined Lesbians Paula and Mudy, Silvia the happy masochist... These are the eccentric characters enliving the incredible stories of this anthology of Italian movies from the so-called Sexual revolution, featured in the form of “cineromanzo”. Krafft-Ebing’s theories, Sade’s fantasies, Freud’s analyses in a bizarre and entertaining cocktail of “hot” sequences chosen from rare Italian magazines of the ‘70s featuring such film as:
- The Libertine (Pasquale Festa Campanile)
- L'assoluto naturale (Mauro Bolognini)
- Eros e Thanatos (Marino Girolami)
- Femina ridens / The Laughing Woman (Piero Schivazappa)
- Venus in Furs (Jess Franco)
- Bella di giorno moglie di notte (Nello Rossati)
- The Lickerish Quartet / Esotika erotika psicotika (Radley Metzger)
- La verità secondo Satana (Renato Polselli)
- A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (Demofilo Fidani)
- Delirio caldo / Delirium (Ralph Brown)
- La donna invisibile / The Fantasies of a Sensuous Woman (Paolo Spinola)
- The Seducers (Ottavio Alessi)
- Scacco alla regina (Pasquale Festa Campanile)
- Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh (Sergio Martino)
See also
- Enrico de Boccard, Rolando Jotti, preface to the Italian edition of Psychopathia Sexualis
- cineromanzi
- Cinesex
- Eroticissimo
- Italian low culture
