ReFocus : : The Films of Doris Wishman / / Alicia Kozma, Finley Freibert.

Offers the first book length contribution to Doris WishmanCovers Wishman’s vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist filmsSituates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history including women’s filmmaking, avant-garde and experim...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Making Films in Hell
  • Part I Gender and Genre
  • 1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73
  • 2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill
  • 3 Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman
  • Part II Cultural History and Adult Film Studies
  • 4 Hardcore Wishman
  • 5 Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman’s Roughies
  • 6 “It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon
  • Part III Comparative Approaches to Authorship
  • 7 Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion
  • 8 Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji
  • 9 “You can’t say you’re not getting a horror film here!”: Authorship, Genre, and the Accidental Avant-Garde in Doris Wishman’s A Night to Dismember
  • 10 My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman
  • Index