Screening Adult Cinema

Farrah Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Southern Illinois University, USA. Her work has appeared in venues such as Camera Obscura, Film Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Porn Studies, and the Spectator. Farrah Freibert was a co-editor with Alicia Kozma of ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (2021). Her monograph Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and Histories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition in Los Angeles is forthcoming.

Peter Alilunas is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon, USA, and the author of Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (2016). His work has appeared in Porn Studies, Film History, Post Script, Television & New Media, Camera Obscura, JCMS, and Creative Industries Journal. He is the co-editor with Whitney Strub of the collection ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2022).

Desirae Embree is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles, USA. Her work focuses on the history of lesbian pornography, softcore adult film, and gender and sexuality in visual media. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, and more. Her dissertation is on the emergence of lesbian-produced hardcore during the video era.