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\nFormat:<\/B> Talk

\nDate:<\/B> 29 October 2016

\nTime:<\/B> 3-4pm

\nVenue:<\/B> Barbican, London

\nBarbican website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As part of the Barbican’s ‘Cheap Thrills’ season, our editor Virginie Sélavy examines the unique women directors who worked in the golden age of exploitation cinema, their struggles and successes, and the singular works they created in this one-hour lecture.<\/p>\n

Stripped and slashed, sometimes both at the same time: this is the fate usually reserved to women in exploitation films. Generally made by male filmmakers for male viewers, the low-budget sex and violence fare of the 1960s-70s does not exactly come across as female-orientated on first view.<\/p>\n

And yet, one of the most prolific pornographers of the period was sexploitation queen Doris Wishman, while legendary shocker Snuff was made by actress and filmmaker Roberta Findlay with her husband in 1971. For all its obsessive focus on the female body, exploitation film offered a way in to maverick women directors who could never hope to break into conservative, monolithic Hollywood.<\/p>\n

This was particularly true of Roger Corman\u2019s New World Pictures. Priding itself on being anti-authoritarian and countercultural, New World Pictures were at the same time making exploitative pictures that put female nudity centre stage. This contradiction defined the company\u2019s relationship with its first two female directors, Stephanie Rothman and Barbara Peeters, resulting in fascinating films such as Terminal Island<\/i> (1973) and i> (1972), where sleaze and feminism uneasily cohabited.<\/p>\n

For the full ‘Cheap Thrills’ programme go to the Barbican website<\/A>. <\/p>\n

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