Adam Film World
Adam Film World Vol. 6 No. 6, dated August 1977
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| Editor | Tim Connelly (as Jeremy Stone) |
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| Former editors | Edward S. Sullivan, John Zeus |
| Categories | Men's magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Year founded | 1966 (as The Adam Film Quarterly) |
| Final issue — Number |
1998 Vol. 17 No. 1 |
| Company | Knight Publishing Corp. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Los Angeles |
| Language | English |
Adam Film World Guide Vol. 21 No. 5, dated July 2008
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| Editor-in-Chief | Anthony Petkovich |
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| Former editors | Tim Connelly (as Jeremy Stone), Edward S. Sullivan |
| Categories | Men's magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Year founded | 1950s |
| First issue | May 1981 |
| Final issue — Number |
August 2008 Vol. 21, No. 6 |
| Company | Knight Publishing Corp. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Los Angeles |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0743-6335 |
| OCLC number | 10621205 |
Adam Film World (AFW) and Adam Film World Guide (AFWG) were magazines about pornographic film, published in the United States, starting in 1966 as The Adam Film Quarterly. The first issue's cover price was $1 and the cover story was about The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill, an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth.
Knight Publishing Corp. had launched Adam magazine in the 1950s as an attempt to follow Playboy's success. Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. Originally, like Playboy, the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars such as Orson Welles or Judy Garland. However, by 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued monthly.
The Internet Adult Film Database owes its start to Peter Van Aarle, who began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World starting in 1982.
Adam Film World was called "one of the industry's leading trade publications" in 1994 by the Associated Press.
In his 2001 book Pornography and Sexual Representation, Joseph Slade states, "Extremely valuable are the reports, reviews and gossip of Adam Film World and Adult Video Guide, the oldest American monthly devoted to explicit cinema and generally more reliable than similar magazines, though the information on actors and actresses should be approached with caution. Best described as a fan magazine, Adam Film World hypes the careers of performers for a credulous audience, but partly for that reason it is unparalleled as a guide to the mores and customs of the porn subculture." Slade pointed out that the magazine's Interviews with performers were, to an extent, similar to celebrity interviews in popular mainstream magazines: "Actors and actresses usually begin by talking about their parents, their adolescence, their own children, lovers, the importance of grooming, then move on to discussions of augmented breasts, relative penis sizes, favorite costars and directors, referred techniques of oral, vaginal, or anal sex, striptease dancing on tour as a sideline and—most important—their fan clubs or their 900-telephone numbers."
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