UID:
almahu_9949586871402882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781474497480 (ebook)
Series Statement:
ReFocus: the American directors series
Content:
〈i〉ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay〈/i〉 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Acknowledgments --
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Foreword --
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Introduction: Sleazy Honesty --
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Chapter 1 Singularity and Conformity: Feminism and Roberta Findlay's Strategic Marketing Communications --
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Chapter 2 "Not Even a Lesbian," or Roberta Findlay's Ambivalently Queer/ Feminist Hardcore Cinema --
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Chapter 3 Zero Girls and Lesbian Stylites: From Solar Sexuality to Camp in the Early Films of Roberta Findlay --
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Chapter 4 From Slaughter to Snuff: The Origins of a Cultural Myth --
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Chapter 5 "This is a Farce": Satire, Pseudonyms, and the Impact of Collaboration in Early Walter Sear/Roberta Findlay Films --
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Chapter 6 Fragments of a Porn Star: Hybrid Documentary and Avant-garde Impulses in Shauna: Every Man's Fantasy --
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Chapter 7 Roberta Findlay's Bronx Tale: Notes on Game of Survival --
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Chapter 8 By the Numbers: Roberta Findlay, Home Video, and the Horror Genre --
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Chapter 9 The Beginning and the End: Transitioning Careers and Roberta Findlay's Banned (1989) --
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Chapter 10 Roberta Findlay vs. Porn Studies --
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Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781474497466
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474497480/type/BOOK
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