Entre Houston et Mobile, le bayou cache bien plus que ses marécages : c’est là que naquit l’âme secrète de la musique américaine.

The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there is no modern history of the subject available. Black and White and Blue fills that void. Taking as its cut-off point the late 1970s, when the advent of the home VCR irrevocably changed the face of the adult film industry, Black and White and Blue celebrates a world of anonymously masked women and curiously black-sock-clad men, whose movie immortality was attained in the time it took to exhaust a roll of film. There were no artificial breasts when the first stags were made, no tattooed and pierced members, and no concept of trick photography. We revisit a time when dingy back street cinemas aired their wares beneath a "members only" sign, and a climate in which the police waited as patiently to bust the participants as audiences queued to watch them, while "polite society" looked on in (often hypocritical) disgust, unable to believe that filth like this even existed. With exclusive interviews, descriptions of over 300 films, and a conversational style, this book will represent a complete and in-depth survey of the adult film, from shaky, flickering black-and-white silents to the first flowering of the lavish modern-day production.

Halifax, 1989 : quand Beau Delaney, avocat flamboyant et père de dix enfants, est accusé du meurtre de sa femme, c’est toute sa famille qui vacille.

Gregg Valentino, ancien bodybuilder modèle, bascule dans le trafic de drogue et découvre un monde où argent, sexe et stéroïdes règnent en maîtres.

1987 : David Bowie, icône intouchable des années 70, est au plus bas. Critiqué, boudé, on l’enterre déjà. Pourtant, vingt ans plus tard, il signe l’un des retours les plus spectaculaires de l’histoire du rock.