ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay / / ed. by Peter Alilunas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Alilunas, Peter,; Bozelka, Kevin John,; Findlay, Roberta,; Freibert, Finley,; Gaskill, Derek,; Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra,; Jackson, Neil,; Janisse, Kier-La,; Moorman, Jennifer,; Previtali, Giuseppe,; Rubin, Joe,; Strub, Whitney,; Walker, Johnny,
• HerausgeberIn: Alilunas, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 27 B/W illustrations 27 B&W images

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta FindlayArgues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemasOffers careful attention to numerous films that have received no previous scholarly attentionContributes to the history of women filmmakers by highlighting a female pioneer generally omitted from accounts of that historyReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay covers a variety of angles, using queer, feminist, historical, and close textual reading methods to grapple with the complicated and contradictory politics and meanings of this pioneering culture-worker. Chapters examine Findlay’s marketing strategies, the gender politics of her exploitation and hardcore films, 1980s horror productions, and several case studies of key individual films, in addition to a new interview with Findlay reflecting on her life and career.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Sleazy Honesty -- Chapter 1 Singularity and Conformity: Feminism and Roberta Findlay’s Strategic Marketing Communications -- Chapter 2 “Not Even a Lesbian,” or Roberta Findlay’s Ambivalently Queer/ Feminist Hardcore Cinema -- Chapter 3 Zero Girls and Lesbian Stylites: From Solar Sexuality to Camp in the Early Films of Roberta Findlay -- Chapter 4 From Slaughter to Snuff: The Origins of a Cultural Myth -- Chapter 5 “This is a Farce”: Satire, Pseudonyms, and the Impact of Collaboration in Early Walter Sear/Roberta Findlay Films -- Chapter 6 Fragments of a Porn Star: Hybrid Documentary and Avant-garde Impulses in Shauna: Every Man’s Fantasy -- Chapter 7 Roberta Findlay’s Bronx Tale: Notes on Game of Survival -- Chapter 8 By the Numbers: Roberta Findlay, Home Video, and the Horror Genre -- Chapter 9 The Beginning and the End: Transitioning Careers and Roberta Findlay’s Banned (1989) -- Chapter 10 Roberta Findlay vs. Porn Studies -- Index