Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta FindlayArgues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemasOffers careful attention to numerous films that have received no previous scholarly attentionContributes to the history of women filmmakers by highlighting a female pioneer generally omitted from accounts of that historyReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay covers a variety of angles, using queer, feminist, historical, and close textual reading methods to grapple with the complicated and contradictory politics and meanings of this pioneering culture-worker. Chapters examine Findlay's marketing strategies, the gender politics of her exploitation and hardcore films, 1980s horror productions, and several case studies of key individual films, in addition to a new interview with Findlay reflecting on her life and career.