One Thousand and One Erotic Nights (Edwin Brown, 1982)
2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/23268743.2017.1333031
ISSN2326-8751
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Feminism, and Media
ResumoEdwin and Summer Brown’s One Thousand and One Erotic Nights, distributed by Essex in 1982, was one of the most successful adult films in the pre-video ‘star vehicle’ production trend of 1982–1984. In many respects, the film is a parable of the career of its female lead, Annette Haven. The figure of Scheherazade, who is initially a doomed and disposable member of the Sultan’s harem but who repeatedly forestalls her execution through storytelling skills and sexual wiles, replays Haven’s own legend as a female porn star who rose from a member of porn’s faceless repertory talent pool to a box-office power eventually able to seize control of both her public image and the artistic direction of her films. In its recasting of Scheherazade as a supposed reframer of erotic spectacle through a feminine lens, her own manipulation of porn ‘viewer’ Sultan Chaka Khan (John Leslie) through both narrative and sexual skills, and its linking of disparate sexual numbers through its portmanteau structure, One Thousand and One Erotic Nights is a twilight exemplar of the prestige adult film aimed at both the traditional theatrical male audience for X-rated films and a wider audience of women and couples.
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