One Foot On the Floor
by Louis Chunovic
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Author: Louis ChunovicEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11-01
ISBN: 1575001861
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: TV Books
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Book Review: Better than television
Summary: 4 Stars
The title of this book refers to the standard censors used in the 1950's and 1960's to determine whether a love scene in a TV show counted as sex or not. If one foot of either lover was still on the floor, it didn't count as sex. What about sex standing up you might ask? I guess TV producers back then hadn't caught up with the sexual revolution yet. Oh well.
Anyways, the book is a great read, and took me one day to finish. It covers the history of sex on American television, from Elvis to Friends, in chronological fashion, with about 1 chapter per decade starting from the black & white days of the 1940s and prior. There are also timely asides on how sex was being portrayed in TV in other countries; such as Germany, England, and Japan.
The focus was good; a subject such as this can easily devolve into gossip on what the actors/actresses were doing off-camera, but this is avoided here. Instead, there is thoughtful discussion on how sex in TV was related to ratings, TV set sales, advertising, popular music, politics, and the general society at large.
This book was published in 2000, thereby leaving out some more notable recent events: Jackson's wardrobe malfunction and Madonna - Britney Spears onstage kiss. But all in all, it was worth the time to read it. I highly recommend it especially to the recent immigrants to America who are initially shocked at American TV.
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