Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Alilunas is assistant professor of cinema studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (University of California Press, 2016). His work on adult film history appears in Film History, Television & New Media, Creative Industries Journal, Post Script, and Porn Studies.
David Church is a lecturer in cinema studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
Dan Erdman is an archivist and writer living in Chicago. He has worked in a variety of institutions, including Chicago Film Archives, the American Genre Film Archive, and the New Museum. He has also written articles for Moving Image, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Indiewire, Senses of Cinema, and Public Books. He is currently working as the video preservation specialist at Media Burn Archive.
Elena Gorfinkel is senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College London. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and coeditor of Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Global Cinema Networks (Rutgers University Press, 2018).
Mariah Larsson is professor of film studies at Linnaeus University. Among her recent publications are The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (Intellect, 2017) and Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution: Critical Essays (coedited with Elisabet Björklund; McFarland, 2016).
Laura Helen Marks is a professor of practice in English at Tulane University in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Sexualities, Phoebe, Salon, and Porno Chic and the Sex Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and is forthcoming in Menstruation Now, Porn Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. Her book, Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.
Eric Schaefer is professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College in Boston. He has been publishing and presenting research on aspects of adult film history for thirty years. He is the author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959 (Duke University Press, 1999) and the edited collection Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution (Duke University Press, 2014).
John Paul Stadler received his PhD from the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University, where he completed a dissertation titled “Pornographesis: Sex, Media, and Gay Culture.” His publications include “Introduction to ‘Pleasure and Suspicion’ ” (with Rachel E. Greenspan; Polygraph, 2017); Prehistoric (Cupboard Pamphlet, 2016); and “Dire Straights: The Indeterminacy of Sexual Identity in Gay-for-Pay Pornography” (Jump Cut, 2013).
Whitney Strub is an associate professor of history, director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University–Newark, and codirector of the Queer Newark Oral History Project. He wrote Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (University Press of Kansas, 2013), and coedited Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016).
