Linda Williams (film scholar)

For the British film critic, see Linda Ruth Williams.

Linda Williams
File:180225 Taller Repensar los géneros del cuerpo 46m59s (cropped).jpg Williams at the University of Buenos Aires in 2018
Born	(1946-12-18) December 18, 1946 United States
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Colorado
Thesis	Figures of desire: an analysis of surrealist film (1977)
Academic work
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Main interests	Film studies
Notable works	Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible
Website	http://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/faculty-profile/linda-williams

Linda Williams (born December 18, 1946) is an American professor of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley.

Professional experience

• Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois, Chicago. 1977-83
• Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois, Chicago. 1984-89
• Professor, Film Studies, University of California, Irvine. 1989-97

Acting Director, Winter 1993

Director, Summer 1994 and Spring 1996

• Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley. 1997–Present

Director of Program in Film Studies, July 1999-Present

Selected honors and awards

• 1989 Katherine Singer Kovács Prize in Film, TV, and Video Studies for essay Fetishism and the Visual Pleasure of Hard Core: Marx, Freud and the 'Money Shot'; and finalist for the best book in Cinema Studies: both the Jay Leyda Prize and the Kovacks Prize (for Hard Core)
• 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
• 2004-2005 Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley
• 2011 Faculties Research Lecture, UC Berkeley
• 2012 Katherine Singer Kovács Prize for "'Cluster Fuck': The Forcible Frame in Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure."
• 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Career Achievement Award
• 2014 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award, UC Berkeley
• Class of 1940, Second Chair: UC Berkeley.

Writings

Author

• Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film, University of Illinois Press, 1981. Paperback edition: University of California Press, 1992, ISBN 0-520-07896-9
• Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (University of California Press, 1989). Expanded Paperback Edition: University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 0-520-21943-0
• Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black & White from Uncle Tom to O.J.Simpson, Princeton University Press, Paperback edition, 2002, ISBN 0-691-10283-X
• Screening Sex, Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8223-4285-4
• On The Wire, Duke University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0822357179

Editor

• Revision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism. Coedited with Mary Anne Doane and Patricia Mellencamp, American Film Institute Monograph Series Frederick Maryland: University Publications of America, 1984. ISBN 0890935866
• Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film. Edited. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8135-2133-5
• Reinventing Film Studies. Co-edited anthology with Christine Gledhill. London: Edward Arnold. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-340-67723-6
• Porn Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8223-3312-0

Journal articles

• Williams, Linda. "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess." Film Quarterly 44, no. 4 (1991): 2-13. doi:10.2307/1212758.
• Williams, Linda (Autumn 2004). "Why I did not want to write this essay". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 30 (1): 1264–1271. doi:10.1086/422234. S2CID 144733994.

External links

• Linda Williams's faculty page
• Linda Williams Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University