Chapter 7 Roberta Findlay’s Bronx Tale: Notes on Game of Survival

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Foreword xiv
7. Introduction: Sleazy Honesty 1
8. Chapter 1 Singularity and Conformity: Feminism and Roberta Findlay’s Strategic Marketing Communications 26
9. Chapter 2 “Not Even a Lesbian,” or Roberta Findlay’s Ambivalently Queer/ Feminist Hardcore Cinema 43
10. Chapter 3 Zero Girls and Lesbian Stylites: From Solar Sexuality to Camp in the Early Films of Roberta Findlay 68
11. Chapter 4 From Slaughter to Snuff: The Origins of a Cultural Myth 86
12. Chapter 5 “This is a Farce”: Satire, Pseudonyms, and the Impact of Collaboration in Early Walter Sear/Roberta Findlay Films 97
13. Chapter 6 Fragments of a Porn Star: Hybrid Documentary and Avant-garde Impulses in Shauna: Every Man’s Fantasy 117
14. Chapter 7 Roberta Findlay’s Bronx Tale: Notes on Game of Survival 140
15. Chapter 8 By the Numbers: Roberta Findlay, Home Video, and the Horror Genre 160
16. Chapter 9 The Beginning and the End: Transitioning Careers and Roberta Findlay’s Banned (1989) 177
17. Chapter 10 Roberta Findlay vs. Porn Studies 191
18. Index 213