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ReFocus : The Films of Doris Wishman / Alicia Kozma, Finley Freibert.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 12 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474482349
  • 9781474482363
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Making Films in Hell -- Part I Gender and Genre -- 1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73 -- 2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill -- 3 Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman -- Part II Cultural History and Adult Film Studies -- 4 Hardcore Wishman -- 5 Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman’s Roughies -- 6 “It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon -- Part III Comparative Approaches to Authorship -- 7 Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion -- 8 Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji -- 9 “You can’t say you’re not getting a horror film here!”: Authorship, Genre, and the Accidental Avant-Garde in Doris Wishman’s A Night to Dismember -- 10 My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman -- Index
Summary: Offers the first book length contribution to Doris WishmanCovers Wishman’s vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist filmsSituates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history including women’s filmmaking, avant-garde and experimental cinema and genre filmConsiders the cultural, historical, and industrial significance of Wishman with focuses on gender studies, genre studies, film narrative, feminist history, queer history and adult film historyProducer, distributor, and director Doris Wishman (1912–2002) was a pioneering woman in the film industry, leaving a body of work almost 30 films strong. Largely overlooked by critical and cultural analysis, Wishman worked in the normatively neglected film genre of sexploitation and adult film, but works like Hideout in the Sun (1960), Bad Girls Go To Hell (1965), Double Agent 73 (1974) and Each Time I Kill (2007) demonstrate an interest in complicated, ideological and often troubling social performances of the contemporary human condition.ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film, with an impact on how we currently understand the categories of cult, exploitation, horror, experimental and avant-garde cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Making Films in Hell -- Part I Gender and Genre -- 1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73 -- 2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill -- 3 Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman -- Part II Cultural History and Adult Film Studies -- 4 Hardcore Wishman -- 5 Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman’s Roughies -- 6 “It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon -- Part III Comparative Approaches to Authorship -- 7 Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion -- 8 Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji -- 9 “You can’t say you’re not getting a horror film here!”: Authorship, Genre, and the Accidental Avant-Garde in Doris Wishman’s A Night to Dismember -- 10 My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman -- Index

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Offers the first book length contribution to Doris WishmanCovers Wishman’s vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist filmsSituates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history including women’s filmmaking, avant-garde and experimental cinema and genre filmConsiders the cultural, historical, and industrial significance of Wishman with focuses on gender studies, genre studies, film narrative, feminist history, queer history and adult film historyProducer, distributor, and director Doris Wishman (1912–2002) was a pioneering woman in the film industry, leaving a body of work almost 30 films strong. Largely overlooked by critical and cultural analysis, Wishman worked in the normatively neglected film genre of sexploitation and adult film, but works like Hideout in the Sun (1960), Bad Girls Go To Hell (1965), Double Agent 73 (1974) and Each Time I Kill (2007) demonstrate an interest in complicated, ideological and often troubling social performances of the contemporary human condition.ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film, with an impact on how we currently understand the categories of cult, exploitation, horror, experimental and avant-garde cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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