ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman by Alicia Kozma

ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman by Alicia Kozma

ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film.

"This book is a must for scholars in a range of different areasThe collection explores the sexual politics of Wishman's films and provoke fascinating questions about our understanding of genre. It also explores what it means to consider Wishman an artist" and, in the process, explores her relationship to other filmmakers and film movements. In short, this book is much more than a study of a fascinating figure: it provides a fascinating take on film history in particular, and cultural history more generally, that demands to be read by those who have never heard of Wishman and who may consider themselves uninterested in lowbrow culture more generally."" -Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia

Alicia Kozma is an educator, writer, and researcher who specializes in the everyday work of the media, including a dual focus on how the film industry runs, the composition of industry employees, and the form and function of their labor; and the industrial, financial, and technological evolutions of film exhibition and its impacts on independent film. She is the author of The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking, and co-editor of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman and Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Her work has been published widely, including in Media Industries, Film Comment, Camera Obscura, Television and New Media, and other venues. Kozma is the Director of the Indiana University Cinema, where she oversees programming, operations, and academic and industry initiatives. She is affiliate faculty in IU's Media School and the IU Wells Scholar Professor for 2025. Dr. Kozma holds a PhD in communication and media studies from the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Farrah Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. With research that spans media history and industry studies, global media circulations and LGBTQ+ history, she has published widely in peer-reviewed scholarly venues such as Film Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Monstrum, Porn Studies, the Journal of Homosexuality, Spectator, Synoptique, and Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. Dr. Freibert is coeditor with Alicia Kozma of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (2021).

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ISBN 13	9781474482356
ISBN 10	147448235X
Title	ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman
Author	Alicia Kozma
Series	Refocus: The American Directors Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2023-02-06
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.