We're not talking about Positif, Cahiers du Cinema, Sight and Sound, or Film Culture here. When these colorful slicks emblazoned their covers with the words "Art Films", don't expect any pontifications on Bergman or Brakhage, but instead expect a "Full Color Center Spread" and a special pre-release preview of the film Hot Miami. Titles like Cinema Close-Up, Barred, Bizarre Films, and Cinema Keyhole seemed to proliferate under the radar of the Look and Life mainstream in the '60s until the early '70s when hardcore reared its ugly, gnarled head, and rendered these magazines quaint, and perhaps not so daring.
From a very interesting site called Bad Mags, which details the sleazier aspects of magazine publishing in the '60s and the '70s, and which will be the subject of a volume coming out of Headpress, a publisher of fine books. And, yes, some of these links may not be work safe.
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