DESIRAE EMBREE
writer exploring culture
and how it shapes us;
editor helping others do the same
Selected Work
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The Splendour, Anarchy, & Genius of Sandy Powell
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A Different Kind of Holiday Affair: Carol at 10
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Remembering Deborah Sundahl: Feminist Pioneer
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"Carol" in Screening American Cinema ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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"Private Pleasures" in Screening Adult Cinema
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Pornography's Feminist Uses: A Conversation
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Archive Trouble: Searching for Lesbian Adult Media
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Define Auteur: In Defense of Under the Cherry Moon
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Porno, Disco, and Summer of Sam
Screening Adult Cinema
ed. Farrah Freibert, Peter Alilunas, and Desirae Embree
This collection of 39 original essays is designed to support film screenings. Each chapter focuses on a single adult film—a category broadly construed as films that foreground sex as a primary narrative, aesthetic, or marketing element. The chapters draw on a variety of perspectives, contexts, histories, themes, and politics in examinations of style, genre, authorship, performance, and stardom.
The first of its kind, Screening Adult Cinema brings together a broad range of established scholars alongside new voices to demonstrate the global breadth and diversity of adult cinema.