The Skin Palace

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The author is indebted to the following works and wishes to express his gratitude to the authors:

Raw Talent, by Jerry Butler; The Haunted Screen, by Lotte H. Eisner; The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History of The Wizard of Oz, by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, & William Stillman; The Devil Thumbs a Ride, by Barry Gifford; From Reverence to Rape, by Molly Haskell; Film Noir, The Dark Side of the Screen, by Forester Hirsch; Signatures of the Visible, by Frederic Jameson; The Liveliest Art, by Arthur Knight; Worcester’s Best, edited by Elliott B. Knowlton; Women in Film, by Annette Kuhn with Susannah Radstone; Great American Movie Theatres, by David Naylor; The Nightmare of Reason, by Ernst Pawel; Cut: The Unseen Cinema, by Baxter Phillips; Preminger, by Otto Preminger; The Films of Rita Hayworth, by Gene Ringgold; Film Noir, edited by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward; Movie Palaces, by Ave Pildas & Lucinda Smith; Porn, by Robert Stoller, M.D.; Hard Core, by Linda Williams; Video Hound’s Golden Movie Retriever; and especially, The Phantom Empire, by Geoffrey O’Brian (from whom I have borrowed the term media overfarming).

The descriptions of the Chapter House and the Virgin and Child sculpture are taken from explicating plaques at the Worcester Art Museum.