For thirty years he was the undisputed king of Italian erotic cinema. They call him Il Maestro. He loved life, lust, and women, and saw no reason to apologise for it. He fought fascism and censorship from both the left and the right in all its forms. And he is a true artist and filmmaker. During the 1980s and '90s, and into the 2000s, some of Italy's most beautiful women queued up to work with him, from award-winning mainstream actresses to models and gymnasts. Brass Cheek presents over sixty pages devoted to the films of Tinto Brass, from the fascinating failure of the notorious Caligula to his final 2006 feature Mon Amour, and including his entire output between, from the dark shadows of The Key and Black Angel to the more lighter, frothy fare, such as Frivolous Lola and Cheeky.

Supporting features include a chapter on the infamous and ground-breaking Last Tango in Paris, a visual round-up of Italy's sleazy fumetti paperbacks, cheap comic strip porn ranging from swashbuckling pirates to gangsters, sci-fi, jungle heroes and vampires, but with beautiful cover artwork, and a look at some of the political erotica of the envelope-pushing directors Walerian Borowczyk and Miklos Jancso. Please note: The text in this book previously appeared in the author's earlier 700 page Strange New World: Sex Films of the 1970s, now available on Amazon.