1. For the availability of this and other such tapes, see Meredith (1982). Similar material, which is sometimes advertised in magazines devoted to X-rated video, is referenced in Eder (1986). [BACK]

3. The possibility of imagining such a utopian promiscuity is, of course, severely circumscribed by external conditions; in this case, what developments in birth control in the late sixties made possible was abruptly terminated in the mid-eighties by AIDS. [BACK]

4. Flipside Video Fanzines are available from PO Box 363, Whittier, California 90608. For a subsequent similar project, see Suburban Relapse Fanzine , POB 404825, Brooklyn, New York 11240. For an overview of punk fanzines in Los Angeles, see James (1984). For accounts of punk film-making, see Boddy (1981) and Buchsbaum (1981). [BACK]

5. The violence of the Los Angeles Police Department is widely documented; see, for example, McCartney (1983) and Stark (1986). A collection of mid-eighties anti-police songs from Southern California was assembled as The Sound of Hollywood: 3: Copulation (Mystic Records, MLP 33128). [BACK]

6. In their fundamental narcissism, their greater emphasis on the profilmic event and less on its subsequent observation by the spectator, these tapes document extreme instances of the first two components ( Partialtrieb ) within the sex instinct, the desire of making oneself seen and the desire of making oneself heard. Lacan (1977: 194-95) proposes that in the former the subject " looks at himself [sic] . . . in his erotic member " and that this delight is the "root" of the scopic drive as a whole. [BACK]

7. This project has, however, been initiated in Houston (1984). [BACK]