Linda Williams was the first to look at pornography as a genre of film and authored many of the books and articles that we frequent to understand and get background to the films we show. She was also a major inspiration behind wanting to create a film festival that treats pornographic film like CINEMA. And we’ve come to appreciate the genre as art in its own right.
“Linda Williams, a trailblazing scholar whose research was foundational to the field of film studies and to feminist film theory, and who wrote extensively about pornography, died on March 12 at her home in Lafayette, in Northern California. She was 78.” Read the full NYTimes obituary.
