Linda Ruth Williams

Dr Linda Ruth Williams is a senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the English Department of University of Southampton. She is married to Mark Kermode.

Publications

Books 1990 (ed.) The Body and the Text: Hélène Cixous, Reading and Teaching, edited by Helen Wilcox, Keith McWatters, Ann Thompson and Linda R. Williams, Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 222. 1992 (ed.) The Twentieth Century: From 1900 to the Present Day (Bloomsbury Guides to Literature), Bloomsbury Press, pp. 336, rpt. 1994. 1993 (ed. and introd.) Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, Everyman Paperbacks, pp. 547. 1993 Sex in the Head: Visions of Femininity and Film in D.H.Lawrence, Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 170. 1995 Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the literary subject, Edward Arnold, pp. 212. 1997 D.H.Lawrence, 'Writers and their Work' series, Northcote House/The British Council, pp. 128. 2005 The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, pp.466 . forthcoming 2006 Contemporary American Cinema, co-edited by Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond, 180,000 words

Articles 1989 'Submission and reading: Feminine Masochism and Feminist Criticism', in New Formations, 7, Spring 1989, p. 9-19
1989 'Behind the Silken-Folded Mask: Victorian and Modern Poetry', in The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature, edited by Marion Wynne Davis, Bloomsbury Press, pp. 253-291. I also wrote numerous reference entries on British Poetry since 1830 for that text.
1990 'Men in Feminism' in Women: A Cultural Review, 1, July 1990, pp. 63-5
1991 'Critical Warfare and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer', in Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Sellers, Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 23-43
1992 'Happy Families? Feminist Transmission and Matrilineal Thought', in New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, pp. 48-64
1992 'The Trial of D.H.Lawrence' in Critical Survey, July 1992, pp. 154-161
1993 'Everything in question: women and film in prospect', pp. xxiv-xxix; 'Sisters under the skin: video and blockbuster erotic thrillers', pp. 105-114; 'Select Bibliography', pp. 254-264; all in Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader, edited by Pam Cook and Philip Dodd, Scarlet Press.
1994 'The Pornographic Subject: Feminism and Censorship in the 1990s', in Political Gender, edited by Sally Ledger, Josephine McDonagh and Jane Spencer, Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 189-203
1995 'Identity Orgies' in New Formations, No. 25, Summer 1995, pp. 123-127
1996 'Fiona Banner' in Spellbound: Art and Film, ed. Philip Dodd with Ian Christie, BFI and Hayward Gallery, pp. 52-59
1997 'Sex and Censoriousness: Pornography and Censorship in Britain', in The Media Reader, ed. Adam Briggs and Paul Cobley, Addison Wesley Longman, pp.426-443
1997/8 'We've Been Forgetting that We're Flesh and Blood, Mother: Glad Ghosts and Uncanny Bodies', in D.H.Lawrence Review, Vol. 27, Nos 22-3, 1997/8, special edition on 'D.H.Lawrence and the Psychoanalytic', ed. Howard J. Booth, Elizabeth M. Fox and Fiona Becket, pp. 233-253
1999 'The Inside-Out of Masculinity: David Cronenberg's Visceral Pleasures', in The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desire and Contemporary Culture, ed. Michele Aaron, Edinburgh University Press 1999, pp. 30-48
1999 'Dream Girls and Mechanic Panic: Dystopia and its others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four', in Unearthly Strangers: The British Science Fiction Film, ed. I.Q. Hunter, Routledge, pp. 153-168, also reprinted in the 2004 anthology Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, ed Sean Redmond, Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press, 2004, pp.64-73
1999 'The Edge of the Razor' (interview with director Catherine Breillat), in Sight and Sound, 9 (10), October 1999, 13-14
2000 'Body Talk' in Action/Spectacle Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader, ed. José Arroyo, London: BFI Publishing 2000, pp. 44-50
2001 'Blood Sisters' in Sight and Sound, 11 (6) June 2001, pp. 36-7 2002 'Escape artist' in Sight and Sound, October pp.22-25
2002 'Sex and Censoriousness: Pornography and Censorship in Britain', extended and updated, in the of The Media: An Introduction, second edition ed. Adam Briggs and Paul Cobley, Pearson Education pp. 477-495
2003 'Swing high, swing low' in Sight and Sound, March, pp.32-3
2004: 'Ready for Action: G.I.Jane, Demi Moore's Body and the Female Combat Movie', in Action and Adventure Cinema, ed. Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, pp.169-185
2005 'Twin Peaks: David Lynch and the serial-thriller soap', in The Contemporary Television Series, edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon, Edinburgh University Press, pp.37-56

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