A roundup of research by the members of our Screening Sex network, published in 2025. Share details of your publication by emailing screeningsex@gmail.com.
de Villiers, Nicholas (2025), Basic Pleasure Models, Femmes Fatales, Techno-Orientalist Androids, and ‘Girlfriend Experiences’ from 2019 to 2049 via 2022 and 2046 in The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner: ‘More Human Than Human’, edited by Nathan Abrams, Elizabeth Miller and Christopher L. Robinson, Liverpool University Press, pp. 173–192.
de Villiers, Nicholas (2025), Ethics of Care, Disability, and Sex Work as Care Work in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone and Days in Care and Disability: Relational Representations, edited by Christopher Gabbard and Talia Schaffer, Routledge, pp. 207–225.
de Villiers, Nicholas (2025), Gender/Sexual Diversity, Space/Place, and Cinephilia in Taiwan, Fulbright TaiwanResearch and Reflections 2023–2024.
Freibert, Farrah (2025), Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and HIstories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition, Edinburgh University Press.
Freibert, Farrah, Peter Alilunas & Desirae Embree (2025), Screening Adult Cinema, Routledge.
Freibert, Farrah (2025), Bisexuality and the Solidarity Stardom of Judy Coleman, Porn Studies, 12(1), 175–185.
Freibert, Farrah (2025), Halsted Cancels Himself: (Ab)Use Value in Overlooked Histories of Fred Halsted, Velvet Light Trap, 95, 4–15.
Freibert, Farrah (2025), Jenifer Michaels. A History, Spectator, 45(2), 42–50.
Freibert, Farrah (2025), Unauthorized Connections: Censorship as Collective Punishment in the Policing of Bob Mizer’s Social Relations, Transatlantica: Revue d’études Américaines, 1, 1–20.
Mitchell, Ben and Laura-Beth Cowley (2025), Intimate Animation, CRC Press.
Slattery, James Lawrence (2025), Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen, Routledge.
Vaughan, Adam (2025), Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects: Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Nonfiction, Edinburgh University Press.
Vaughan, Adam (2025), Queering the Code: Performing Queerness in George Cukor’s 1930s Films, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 42(1), 164-183.
Zelmanova, Polina (2025), Between Agency and Victimhood: Adult Material and Screening the Female Porn Performer in the #MeToo Era, Porn Studies, 1–22.
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