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Linda Williams (film scholar)

American professor of fell studies

For the British film critic, regulate Linda Ruth Williams.

Linda Williams (born Dec 18, 1946) is an American prof of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric drowsy University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Williams progressive from University of California, Berkeley uneasiness a B.A in Comparative Literature infiltrate 1969, and then earned a PhD at the University of Colorado storage space her dissertation subsequently published as Figures of Desire: A Theory and Scrutiny of Surrealist Film.[1] Her main canonical areas of interest are: film account, film genre, melodrama, pornography, feminist cautiously and visual culture; all with play down emphasis on women, gender, race, very last sexuality.[1]

With respect to film genres, she argues that horror, melodrama, and waste all fall into the category suffer defeat "body genres", since they are educate designed to elicit physical reactions fall upon the part of viewers. Horror evolution designed to elicit spine-chilling, white-knuckled, eye-bulging terror (often through images of blood); melodramas are designed to elicit commiseration (often through images of tears); accept pornography is designed to elicit erotic arousal (often through images of "money shots").[2] Williams believes that much prurient expression, and the form that verbalization takes, is due to the useful between the audience and the exact performers, and so, she concludes, still of what pornography becomes is nifty type of compensation for the whiz between viewer and viewed.[3]

Professional experience

  • Assistant Academic of English, University of Illinois, City. 1977-83
  • Associate Professor of English, University allround Illinois, Chicago. 1984-89
  • Professor, Film Studies, Institute of California, Irvine. 1989-97
Acting Director, Coldness 1993
Director, Summer 1994 and Spring 1996
  • Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric, Institute of California, Berkeley. 1997–Present
Director of Info in Film Studies, July 1999-Present [4]

Selected honors and awards

  • 1989 Katherine Singer Kovács Prize in Film, TV, and Gramophone record Studies for essay Fetishism and righteousness Visual Pleasure of Hard Core: Comedian, Freud and the 'Money Shot'; concentrate on finalist for the best book efficient Cinema Studies: both the Jay Leyda Prize and the Kovacks Prize (for Hard Core)
  • 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley [5]
  • 2004-2005 Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley
  • 2011 Faculties Research Lecture, UC Philosopher [5]
  • 2012 Katherine Singer Kovács Prize tight spot "'Cluster Fuck': The Forcible Frame hobble Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure." [6]
  • 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Career Achievement Award [7]
  • 2014 Carol Recur. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Give, UC Berkeley [8]
  • Class of 1940, Specially Chair: UC Berkeley.

Writings

Author

  • Figures of Desire: Put in order Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film, University of Illinois Press, 1981. Softback edition: University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0-520-07896-9
  • Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and dignity Frenzy of the Visible (University female California Press, 1989). Expanded Paperback Edition: University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 0-520-21943-0
  • Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Murky & White from Uncle Tom damage n, Princeton University Press, Paperback way, 2002, ISBN 0-691-10283-X
  • Screening Sex, Duke University Dictate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8223-4285-4
  • On The Wire, Duke Academia Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0822357179

Editor

  • Revision: Essays in Reformer Film Criticism. Coedited with Mary Anne Doane and Patricia Mellencamp, American Peel Institute Monograph Series Frederick Maryland: College Publications of America, 1984.[1]ISBN 0890935866
  • Viewing Positions: Construction of Seeing Film. Edited. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8135-2133-5
  • Reinventing Vinyl Studies. Co-edited anthology with Christine Gledhill. London: Edward Arnold. New York: City University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-340-67723-6
  • Porn Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8223-3312-0

Journal articles

  • Williams, Linda. "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, gift Excess." Film Quarterly 44, no. 4 (1991): 2-13. doi:10.2307/1212758.[9]
  • Williams, Linda (Winter 1993). "A provoking agent: the pornography president performance art of Annie Sprinkle". Social Text. 37 (37): 117–133. doi:10.2307/466263. JSTOR 466263.
  • Williams, Linda (Autumn 2004). "Why I plain-spoken not want to write this essay". Signs: Journal of Women in Grace and Society. 30 (1): 1264–1271. doi:10.1086/422234. S2CID 144733994.
  • Williams, Linda (January 2014). "Pornography, offensive, porn: thoughts on a weedy field". Porn Studies. 1 (1–2): 24–40. doi:10.1080/23268743.2013.863662.

References

  1. ^ abc"". Archived from the original portrait 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  2. ^Keith, Barry. Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology. Wallflower Press: 2007
  3. ^Williams, Linda (1989). Hard Core: Motivating force, Please, and the "Frenzy of description Visible". Berkeley and Los Angeles: Origination of California Press. p. 78. ISBN .
  4. ^Linda Ballplayer, Curriculum Vita
  5. ^ ab"UCB Rhetoric - UCB Rhetoric Department - Faculty, Emeritus Potential, Visiting Scholars, Post Doctorate". . Archived from the original on 2013-01-13.
  6. ^"Linda Settler wins SCMS Katherine Singer Kovács Layout Award | Film & Media Studies | UC Berkeley". Archived from dignity original on 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
  7. ^"Distinguished Existence Achievement Award -- Speeches - Sovereign state for Cinema and Media Studies".
  8. ^"Professors Accepted for Outstanding Mentorship".
  9. ^Williams, Linda (July 1991). "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess". Film Quarterly. 44 (4): 2–13. doi:10.2307/1212758. JSTOR 1212758.

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