ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay

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).

A pioneering, prolific filmmaker who disdains her historical contributions to several male-dominated industries. A self-proclaimed misogynist who has been reclaimed as an unlikely "feminist" auteur. This fascinating new collection shines a much-needed spotlight on the many contradictions of Roberta Findlay, and is sure to become essential reading for scholars of adult and exploitation cinema.

• ForewordIntroduction: Sleazy HonestyAcknowledgements1. Singularity and Conformity: Feminism and Roberta Findlay’s Strategic Marketing Communications - Finley Freibert2. "Not Even a Lesbian," or Roberta Findlay’s Ambivalently Queer/Feminist Hardcore Cinema - Jennifer Moorman3. Zero Girls and Lesbian Stylites: From Solar Sexuality to Camp in the Early Films of Roberta Findlay - Kevin John Bozelka4. From Slaughter to Snuff: The Origins of a Cultural Myth - Giuseppe Previtali5. "This is a Farce": Satire, Pseudonyms, and the Impact of Collaboration in Early Walter Sear/Roberta Findlay Films - Derek Gaskill6. Fragments of a Porn Star: Hybrid Documentary and Avant-Garde Impulses in Shauna: Every Man’s Fantasy - Kier-La Janisse7. Roberta Findlay’s Bronx Tale: Notes on Game of Survival - Neil Jackson8. By the Numbers: Roberta Findlay, Home Video, and the Horror Genre - Johnny Walker9. The Beginning and the End: Transitioning Careers and Roberta Findlay's Banned (1989) - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas10. Roberta Findlay vs. Porn Studies