ReFocus : The Films of Roberta Findlay / edited by Peter Alilunas and Whitney Strub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strub, Whitney, editor.

Alilunas, Peter, 1912- editor.

Series:

Refocus.

ReFocus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Findlay, Roberta, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Findlay, Roberta.

Film tourism.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-9749-7

1-4744-9748-9

OCLC:

1371574127