ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman

Alicia Kozma; Finley Freibert

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

ReFocus

The Films of Doris Wishman

Alicia Kozma and Finley Freibert

In the series ReFocus: The American Directors Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474482363

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About this book

Offers the first book length contribution to Doris Wishman

Covers Wishman’s vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist films
Situates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history including women’s filmmaking, avant-garde and experimental cinema and genre film
Considers the cultural, historical, and industrial significance of Wishman with focuses on gender studies, genre studies, film narrative, feminist history, queer history and adult film history

Producer, 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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Foreword Joan Hawkins Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction: Making Films in Hell Alicia Kozma and Finley Freibert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Gender and Genre
1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73 Elena Gorfinkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3 Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman Harper Shalloe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Part II Cultural History and Adult Film Studies
4 Hardcore Wishman Whitney Strub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5 Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman’s Roughies Finley Freibert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
6 “It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon Karen Joan Kohoutek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part III Comparative Approaches to Authorship
7 Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion Hannah Greenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji Molly Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
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 Jamie Hook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10 My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman Rebekah McKendry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474482363