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Royalle's Femme Productions videos open like a perfume commercial, with a young woman running across a country field in a lacy white nightgown. "Finally, there's Femme," breathes the female announcer as the woman is caught and passionately kissed by a bare-chested man. "Erotic film star
168:. Her father, Louis, worked as a professional jazz drummer and had a hot temper. Her mother, Margaret O’Bannon, left the family when Royalle was 18 months old and Royalle never saw her again. Candice and her sister Cinthea were raised by their stepmother, Helen Duffy.
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predictability", and depiction of sex in "...as grotesque and graphic as possible." She also criticized the male-centredness of the typical pornographic film, in which scenes end when the male actor ejaculates. Royalle's films are not "goal oriented" towards a final
347:, a documentary about Royalle's life and finding out what happened to her mother who left her as a child, was screened at various documentary film festivals. It was directed by Sheona McDonald and distributed by Mbur Indie Film Distribution.
556:"The Woman Who Tried to Make Porn Safe for Feminism - How the archive of Candida Royalle, a porn star turned pioneering director, landed at Harvard — and inspired a new book challenging the conventional history of the sexual revolution"
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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible"
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for depicting healthy and realistic sexual activity.
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