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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 27 B/W illustrations 27 B&W images
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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