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1	Deconstructing the “Low Other” in the First Wave of Sex Hygiene Films (1914-1919) Cârstian, Maria January 2019 (has links) The present thesis investigates the commercial sex hygiene films produced between the years 1914 and 1919 in the United States, during the last years of the Progressive Era. Rejected and prohibited as soon as five years after their apparition, the sex hygiene films’ position within the industry, as well as the cinematic techniques they incorporated, will be analysed through the concept of the Low Other. The first part of the thesis aims to delineate the used concepts, as well as integrate the sex hygiene film into a wider cultural, social, and political framework. The second part explores the films’ aesthetic construction, then focuses on a textual analysis of the narrative and non-narrative methods implied by three particular sex hygiene films. Finally, the thesis concludes that the films used a series of cinematic methods to create a Low Other on-screen, yet these very methods ultimately played a part within their suppression as a Low Other body of culture. Early cinema sex hygiene film Low Other Damaged Goods The Black Stork The End of The Road venereal disease film sex education film eugenics transgression hybridization Progressive Era. Studies on Film Filmvetenskap