ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay
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exploitation film
Roberta Findlay
women directors
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- ISBN 9781474497466
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay
Argues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemas
Offers careful attention to numerous films that have received no previous scholarly attention
Contributes to the history of women filmmakers by highlighting a female pioneer generally omitted from accounts of that history
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.
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).
