Linda Williams (film critic)

Linda Williams (born mid-20th century) is a professor of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at Berkeley. She has pioneered academic studies on pornography. She should not be confused with the British film scholar (who has also occasionally written about pornographic film) Linda Ruth Williams.

Writings

As author
*"Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film", University of Illinois Press, 1981. Paperback edition: University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0520078969
*"Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible" (University of California Press, 1989). Expanded Paperback Edition: Univ of California Press, 1999, ISBN 0520219430
*"Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black & White from Uncle Tom to O.J.Simpson", Princeton University Press, Paperback edition, 2002, ISBN 069110283X
*"Screening Sex", Duke University Press (forthcoming)

As editor
*"Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film", Rutgers University Press, 1999,ISBN 0813521335
*(with Christine Gledhill), Reinventing Film Studies, Hodder Arnold, 2000, ISBN 0340677236
*"Porn Studies", B&T, 2004, ISBN 0822333120

External links

* [http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/linda_williams.html Website of her department]