#016 - Hardcore Auteurism: The Films of Gerard Damiano

As we kick off our second season, we're tackling the bizarre and beguiling career of the filmmaker who built one of hardcore cinema's most serious and ambitious bodies of work. A Navy veteran and Queens hairdresser turned director, Gerard Damiano is regrettably best remembered today for the adult film that became a controversial cultural touchstone of the 1970s, Deep Throat (1972). But across the so-called "porno chic" boom of that decade and into the '80s, Damiano produced a run of lo...