Blue Movie is a satirical novel by Terry Southern

Terry Southern

Terry Southern was an American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style...

 about the making of a high-budget pornographic film featuring major movie stars. It was published in 1970.

The story line follows the celebrated cinematic auteur Boris Adrian, known as "B," who undertakes The Faces of Love, an episodic film with high budget production values that will explicitly depict the range of human sexual

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...

 experience .

The filmmaker "B" is loosely based on Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

. Southern, who collaborated with Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove, dedicated the book "To the great Stanley K."