1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Foreword xii
7. Introduction: Making Films in Hell 1
8. Part I Gender and Genre
9. 1 The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman’s Double Agent 73 15
10. 2 The Girls in the Mirror: Women’s Horror Filmmaking and Doris Wishman’s Each Time I Kill 32
11. 3 Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman 47
12. Part II Cultural History and Adult Film Studies
13. 4 Hardcore Wishman 67
14. 5 Bad Bis Go to Hell: Bisexuality as Transgressive and Lucrative in Doris Wishman’s Roughies 78
15. 6 “It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon 101
16. Part III Comparative Approaches to Authorship
17. 7 Depicting Female Bodies: Doris Wishman, Carolee Schneemann, and Legacies of Subversion 121
18. 8 Revolutionization of the Erotic Screen: The Films of Doris Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji 144
19. 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 159
20. 10 My Teenage Cinematic Love Affair with Doris Wishman 178
21. Index 186