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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.
Alicia Kozma is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College.
Finely Freibert is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville and an adjunct Lecturer at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword, Joan Hawkins; Introduction: Making Films in Hell, Alicia Kozma and Finley Freibert; PART 1 Gender and Genre; 1: The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman's Double Agent, Elena Gorfinkel; 2: The Girls in the Mirror: Women's Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman's Each Time I Kill (2007), Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; 3: Trans/sexual negativity and the ethics of (s)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman, Harper Shalloe; PART 2: Cultural History and Adult Film Studies; 4: Hardcore Wishman, Whitney Strub; 5: Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman's Roughies, Finley Freibert; 6: "It's Strange, but It's Wonderful": Doris Wishman's Nude on the Moon, Karen Joan Kohoutek; PART 3: Comparative Approaches to Authorship; 7: Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion, Hannah Greenberg; 8: Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji, Molly Kim; 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; 10: My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman, Rebekah McKendry
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Dr Alicia Kozma is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College.Finely Freibert is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville and an adjunct Lecturer at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.
