Description
Producer, distributor, and director Doris Wishman (1912-2002) was a pioneering woman in the film industry, leaving a body of work almost 30 films strong. Largely overlooked by critical and cultural analysis, Wishman worked in the normatively neglected film genre of sexploitation and adult film, but works like Hideout in the Sun (1960), Bad Girls Go To Hell (1965), Double Agent 73 (1974) and Each Time I Kill (2007) demonstrate an interest in complicated, ideological and often troubling social performances of the contemporary human condition.
ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film, with an impact on how we currently understand the categories of cult, exploitation, horror, experimental and avant-garde cinema.
About the Author
Dr Alicia Kozma is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Washington College. Dr Finley Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. He is co-editor with Alicia Kozma of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (EUP, 2021).