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The Films of Doris Wishman
Edited by Alicia Kozma and Finley Freibert
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the authors:
Dr Alicia Kozma is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College. Dr Finley Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. He is co-editor with Alicia Kozma of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (EUP, 2021).
Press Reviews:
This book is a must for scholars in a range of different areas. The collection explores the sexual politics of Wishman’s films and provoke fascinating questions about our understanding of genre. It also explores what it means to consider Wishman an "artist" and, in the process, explores her relationship to other filmmakers and film movements. In short, this book is much more than a study of a fascinating figure: it provides a fascinating take on film history in particular, and cultural history more generally, that demands to be read by those who have never heard of Wishman and who may consider themselves uninterested in lowbrow culture more generally.– Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
See the complete filmography of Doris Wishman on the website: IMDB ...
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