articles + chapters
"'that passive and numb': on Barbara Loden's Wanda"
Sabzian, 7 May 2025
(revised excerpt of "Wanda's Slowness: Enduring Insignificance," 2019)
"Carnal Densities"
in Damon Ross Young, ed. "Body, Genre, Apparatus: Rereading Linda Williams on Pornography" dossier,
Porn Studies, Vol 11, No 2 (2024) 12-17.
“Sleeping in the Movie Theater (After Wanda Goronski)”
in Shanay Jhaveri, ed.
Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark
Sweden: Cornerhouse/ Shoestring Publisher, 2024.
"Conjuring the cinematic pissoir"
World Picture 14 "Spell"
Summer 2023
"Energetics and Erotics: On Schneemann's Cinema"
in Lotte Johnson & Chris Bayley, eds.
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
in Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, eds.
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
London: MIT Press, 2022.
“Women They Talk About”
in Erika Balsom & Robert Leckie, eds.
Bristol: Mousse/Spike Island Press, 2021. 34-51.
"The Bed (Andy Warhol & Danny Williams, 1965)"
in John Hanhardt, ed.
The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne 1963-1965
New York: Yale University Press/ Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021.
Book winner of the 2022 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award
"The Body as Apparatus: Doris Wishman's Double Agent 73"
(revised, with new introduction)
in Alicia Kozma and Finley Freibert, eds.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
“Attachment Road: No Sex Last Night & American Honey”
in Shanay Jhaveri, ed.
Mumbai: The Shoestring Publisher, 2019. 466-493.
"Wanda's Slowness: Enduring Insignificance"
in Ivone Margulies & Jeremi Szaniawski, eds.
On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations
London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 27-48.
“Introduction: Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media”
Feminist Media Histories
5.2 (Spring 2019), 1-18.
“Microhistories and Materiality in Adult Film History, or the Case of Erotic Salad”
in David Church & Eric Schaefer, eds.
"In Focus: Why Adult Film History Matters"
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
58.1. (Fall 2018) 147-152.
“Promiscuous Histories, Materialist Theories, Speculative Poetics”
Cinema Journal, 57.2. (Winter 2018) 121-125.
“Global Cinemas in a Time of Networks”
in Gorfinkel and Williams, eds.
Rutgers University Press, 2018. 1-22.
“Sex, Sensation and Nonhuman Interiority in Under the Skin"
Jump Cut, No. 57 (Fall 2016). 6782 words.
in Tiago de Luca and Nuno Jorge Barrado, eds.,
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
“Secretary: Purple Pose, Indie Masochism, Bruised Romance” in Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis, ed.
U.S. Independent Cinema after 1989: Possible Films
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 165-176.
“Corpse, Corpus, Contingency: On Peggy Ahwesh’s ‘Deadman’ Trilogy”
Screen
Vol. 55, No. 4 (Winter 2014). 514-521.
“Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere” (revised)
in Eric Schaefer, ed.
Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 126-150.
“Seduction Time: Radley Metzger’s Score and the Utopian Gesture”
in Jesse Pires, ed.
Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution,
Philadelphia: International House Publications, 2014. 44-59.
“Film After Cinema: Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder’s Light Spill and Museal Materialism”
INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media,
No. 4 (Fall 2013). 226-234.
“'Weariness, Waiting': Enduration and Art Cinema’s Tired Bodies”
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture
Vol. 34, No. 2-3
(Spring/Fall 2012 [Fall 2013]). 311-347.
“The Body’s Failed Labor: Performance Work in Sexploitation Cinema”
Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media
Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring 2012.) 79-98.
“Impossible, Impolitic: Fear Eats the Soul and Fassbinder’s Asynchronous Bodies”
in Brigitte Peucker, ed.
A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2012. 502-515.
“Introduction: The Work of the Image: Cinema, Labor, Aesthetics” (Dossier Introduction)
Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media,
Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring 2012.) 41-46.
“Dated Sexuality: Anna Biller’s Viva and the Retrospective Life of Sexploitation Cinema”
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture & Media Studies 78.
Volume 26, No. 3 December 2011. 94-135.
“Tales of Times Square: Sexploitation’s Secret History of Place”
in Rhodes and Gorfinkel, eds.
Taking Place: Location & the Moving Image
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 55-76.
“Introduction: The Matter of Places”
with John David Rhodes
in Rhodes and Gorfinkel, eds.
Taking Place: Location & the Moving Image
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. vii-xxv
“Arousal in Ruins: The Color of Love and the Haptic Object of Film History"
World Picture 4, Arousal Issue
No. 4. (April 2010). (9340 words, 19 pp.)
“A Short History of Jay Schwartz’s The Secret Cinema”
in Andrea Grover & Ed Halter, eds.
A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas
Houston: Aurora Picture Show Press, 2009. 117-121.
Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media,
Vol. 49, No. 2, (Fall 2008.) 115-137.
“Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere”
Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media,
Vol. 47, No. 2, (Fall 2006.) 59-86.
Honorable Mention, Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, 2007
“The Future of Anachronism: Todd Haynes and The Magnificent Andersons”
in Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener, eds.
Cinephilia: Movies, Love & Memory,
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2005. 153-168.
“Radley Metzger's ‘Elegant Arousal’: Taste, Aesthetic Distinction, and Sexploitation”
in Xavier Mendik & Steven Schneider, eds.
Underground USA: Filmmaking Outside of the Hollywood Canon
London: Wallflower Press, 2002. 26-39.
“The Body as Apparatus: Chesty Morgan Takes on the Academy”
in Graeme Harper and Xavier Mendik, eds.
Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics
London: FAB Press, 2000. 155-169.