Cerne Abbas
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| - | ''[[Pornography - The Secret History of Civilisation]]'' ([[2000]]) is a documentary film by [[Chris Rodley]] and [[Dev Varma]]. | + | '''Cerne Abbas''' is a [[village]] located in the [[valley]] of the [[River Cerne]], between steep [[chalk]] [[downland]] in central [[Dorset]], [[England]]. The village is located just to the east of the [[A352 road]] 10 km (6 miles) north of [[Dorchester]]. There was a population of 732 at the 2001 [[census]], a figure which has fallen from 780 in 1998. |
| - | Product Description | + | The most famous attraction is the [[Cerne Abbas giant]], a 55 metre (180ft) naked figure carved into the chalk hillside. The giant, owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], is thought by many to be an [[Iron Age]] [[fertility]] symbol but, as it is unlikely that the monks of Cerne Abbey would have tolerated such a figure, and with no records before the 17th century, this cannot be confirmed. Many scholars now think that it was created in the mid-17th century, although there is evidence of Iron Age settlement on the downs nearby. |
| - | Ten years in the making, PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION is a six-part series, which tells for the first time on British television the [[history of pornography]]. This landmark series charts the changes in sexual imagery prompted by the advent of new technologies over thousands of years: from ancient times to print, photography, film, video and the Internet. With unprecedented access to the modern porn industry, interviews with pornography experts and historians and an unparalleled collection of archival material, it is also the story of how these technological mediums influenced the development of pornography, who used it, how it was distributed and how it was censored. | + | |
| - | But the real story of pornography is also a secret history of civilization. Pornography puts aside the usual moral arguments that have clouded the issue for decades and takes an objective historical perspective. Pornography, far from being some smutty sideshow on the margins of society, has in fact played a vital and central role in civilization and our cultural evolution. | ||
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| - | Each program focuses on a different technology and how that new technology revolutionized pornography and made it available to new groups of people, however hard the authorities tried to control it. | ||
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| - | THE ROAD TO RUIN opens with the science of archaeology. Sexual imagery has been at the heart of culture all over the world, from the [[Cerne Abbas]] man to the painted walls of [[Pompeii]], from the carvings of [[Bourges Cathedral]] to the obscene pamphlets of the [[French Revolution]]. | ||
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| - | THE SACRED AND PROFANE (see [[sacred and profane]]) shows how printing was seen as something that turned hitherto acceptable sexual explicit expression into something far more dangerous. Indeed pornography was instrumental in fermenting the French Revolution, with shockingly explicit sexual satire directed at the monarchy. Photography was the greatest leap forward ever in the history of pornography. In the nineteenth century, to ask where pornographic photographs were sold is like asking where you can buy drugs today. | ||
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| - | THE MECHANICAL EYE examines the appeal of photographs, their development and their consumers, as well as the evolution of the porn magazine. This film also covers the birth of the mail order porn dealer; heralding arguments which have parallels today with debates on internet pornography. | ||
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| - | TWENTIETH CENTURY FOXY covers the rise of the [[porn film]] industry. But porn on film, and the porn cinema was an interstitial time. At the end of the 70s the new vehicle for porn was video. | ||
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| - | SEX LIVES ON VIDEOTAPE shows how the advent of video ended pornography's crossover dreams. Video re-made pornography in its own image, replacing the glamour and fantasy of the movies with a real documentary style. The most significant contribution of video was that it turned consumers into producers; the audience picked up cameras and started recording their sex lives on videotape! | ||
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| - | FUTURE SCHLOCK looks at the new era of digital manipulation and asks how digital technology has affected the pornography that we produce, and the way we consume it. We talk to people who say that the Internet has dealt the biggest blow yet to the establishment. Pornography in physical forms - books, magazines, and videos - could always be seized and destroyed, but on the Net, pornography has shed its physical form and gone digital. --via the publisher | ||
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Cerne Abbas is a village located in the valley of the River Cerne, between steep chalk downland in central Dorset, England. The village is located just to the east of the A352 road 10 km (6 miles) north of Dorchester. There was a population of 732 at the 2001 census, a figure which has fallen from 780 in 1998.
The most famous attraction is the Cerne Abbas giant, a 55 metre (180ft) naked figure carved into the chalk hillside. The giant, owned by the National Trust, is thought by many to be an Iron Age fertility symbol but, as it is unlikely that the monks of Cerne Abbey would have tolerated such a figure, and with no records before the 17th century, this cannot be confirmed. Many scholars now think that it was created in the mid-17th century, although there is evidence of Iron Age settlement on the downs nearby.
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