Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (Refocus: The American Directors) (ReFocus: The American Directors Series) - Hardcover

Peter Alilunas; Whitney Strub

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474497462 ISBN 13: 9781474497466

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

ReFocus: 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.

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About the Author

Peter Alilunas is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016).

Whitney Strub is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. He is co-editor of Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s (2016) and author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1474497462
• ISBN 13: 9781474497466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Peter Alilunas, Whitney Strub