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... to transcend it — as if “time capsules” without a destination. An exemplar of the penchant for “dated sexuality,” filmmaker Anna Biller restages the profilmic universe of the sexploitation oeuvre in her film Viva (2007). Viva 's narrative of two women's entrance into the sexual revolution and its meticulous...

...Elena Gorfinkel Anna Biller, Los Angeles independent filmmaker, director, writer, producer, and star of the retro-sexploitation film Viva (2007) discusses her creative influences and production practice. Discussing the value of discarded generic modes such as 1960s sexploitation film and the use...

..., are discussed only as a corpse” (215). Against this unjust and pervasive social dictum of material death for travestis, Silva Santana poetically mobilizes the notion of being “ mais viva! , more alive” as a healing practice of survival (215). Once again, in her words, “Being mais viva! is that healing knowledge...

... interesting little scenarios develop in trains, police stations, cafes, 7 1 and haciendas-never really goes beyond the improbable actuality of the imaginary country which is the setting for The Mexican, his first play (the scenario of Que Viva Mexico! is particularly significant in this context; even...

..., the Hollywood choreographer David Winters, hired her to assist on a number of big-­budget productions, includ- ing Viva Las Vegas (dir. George Sidney, US, 1964), starring Elvis Presley and Ann-­Margret, and the popular variety show Shindig! In the fall of 1964, around the same time that she began...

... and not, of the politics of desire. When, in the last line of her preface (p. viii), Ang thanks "the readers of the [Dutch] women's magazine Viva, who so kindly wrote me about the (dis)pleasure that Dallas had afforded them," it seems that her attempt to mention pleasure and displeasure together does not correspond...

... a similarly “redemptive aesthetic” (109). Gorfinkel argues that Biller’s film does not openly parody sexploitation cin- The Industrial Logic of Mainstream Alt-­Porn  • 47 ema: “Viva, while employing elements of camp humor, takes sex- ploitation seriously” (112). As a result...

..., a transgender singer who represented Israel in the 1998 camp Euro- vision Song Contest (better known in some European countries as the Grand Prix). She won first place with the song “Diva,” whose lyrics include such catchy inanities as “viva la diva” and “viva Vic- toria.” When Eyal says that “we invented...

.... Gill-Peterson, “General Editor's Introduction,” 414. 15. Cole Rizki, “Latin/x American Trans Studies: Toward a Travesti -Trans Analytic,” TSQ 6, no. 2 (2019): 149. 16. Dora Silva Santana, “ Mais Viva! Reassembling Transness, Blackness, and Feminism,” TSQ 6, no. 2 (2019): 211...

... was responsible for Tsai Ming-liang’s Viva l’amour (Aiqing wansui, Taiwan, 1994) and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet  a nd Eat Drink Man Woman (Yinshi nannü, Taiwan/US, 1994), and Chi Yin, a 1992 University of California, Los Angeles, film graduate who had his directorial debut withIn a Strange City...

... relation to history has also been informed by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000); and Lim, Translating Time. 49. Elena Gorfinkel, “ ‘Dated Sexuality’: Anna Biller’s Viva...

..., 1963), 87. 29. Musical compositions based on biofeedback also started to gain popularity in Europe in the second half of the 1960s. The Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) group in Italy staged multiple performances based on improvisation and EEG interfaces. Interestingly, Sobell became friends...

..., or the agent of love or sexual addiction. Viva Team Edward! By the time of Twilight’s release almost a year later on Novem- ber Edward Cullen had become merely a placeholder for Pattinson. Upon his entrance — backlit and in slow motion, with • Camera Obscura the rest of the fashionably...