Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Linda Farin papers
- Dates:
- 1986-1997, bulk bulk 1986-1989
- Creators:
- Farin, Linda
- Abstract:
- Linda Farin was a successful lawyer in Austin, Texas. After seeing Donna Deitch's film Desert Hearts, she became inspired to produce a realistic and positive lesbian erotic film and began forming a cohort of lesbian writers in order to develop a script. This collection contains documentation relating to the production, distribution, and reception of the film Waking Up: A Lesson in Love.
- Extent:
- 0.4 Linear Feet (1 document box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Linda Farin Papers (Collection 1942). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Linda Farin Papers document the conception, production, distribution, and reception of the film Waking Up: A Lesson in Love, produced and co-written by Linda Farin. These papers include script drafts, financial documents, advertising strategies, copy reviews and correspondence.
Throughout the production of the film, funding issues as well as philosophical challenges arose from both within the circle of people working on the film as well as from the outside. In her story "The Making of a Lesbian Erotic Video" (contained within the collection), Lindsey Lane (co-writer and co-producer) outlines some of her frustrations with the effects of both homophobia and the difficulties of producing independent films. Much of the correspondence between reviewers and distributors reflects some of this conflict as well. While Waking Up: A Lesson in Love was produced in the late 1980's, the tensions of the "sex wars" of the late seventies and early eighties are present in the collection. Many of the reviewers and distributors approached by Linda Farin were generally uncomfortable with the portrayal of lesbian casual sex in the film in contrast to some of the more sex positive publications which chose to advertise and review the film such as On Our Backs magazine or Forum.
- Biographical / historical:
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Linda Farin was a successful lawyer in Austin, Texas. After seeing Donna Deitch's film Desert Hearts, she became inspired and challenged to produce a realistic and positive lesbian erotic film and began forming a cohort of lesbian writers in order to develop a script. Through her participation with Liatris Media, which produced the Third Wave Women's International Film and Video Festival from 1986-1989, Linda Farin met Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss. Greta Schiller became involved in the project in the early stages anonymously and later added her name to the project as Director. Farin formed both Foosh Productions and Anonymous Was a Woman Ltd. in order to help fund the project. Anonymous Was A Woman Ltd. was later dissolved in 1996.
Missing Title Date Event June 1985 Release of Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, Greta Schiller's first full length documentary.May 1988 Foosh Productions Incorporated.June 1988 Taping and production of Waking Up: A Lesson in LoveSeptember 1988 Release of Waking Up: A Lesson in Love - Acquisition information:
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Gift of Linda Farin, 1990.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library .
- Processing information:
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Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Jessica Tai in 2016.
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library. These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
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- Arrangement:
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Arranged chronologically.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-22 14:49:00 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Linda Farin Papers (Collection 1942). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988