ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

• Argues Findlay's centrality to modern exploitation, hardcore pornography, and horror cinemas
• Offers careful attention to numerous films that have received no previous scholarly attention
• Contributes to the history of women filmmakers by highlighting a female pioneer generally omitted from accounts of that history

ReFocus: 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.