Abstract
Jenifer Michaels was a legendary subcultural star within the gay liberation film milieu of 1970s Los Angeles. Taking three paths to approaching and interpreting Michaels’s filmic and archival image, this article is structured by an analysis of Michaels’s documentary appearances, her performance in sex films, and her statements published in a textual interview. Working against what I call historiographic gentrification, the article utilizes archival and micro-historical methods to think through Michaels’s subcultural stardom as a nexus for complicating biography, documentary, and the politics of veracity.
Recommended Citation
Freibert, Farrah. "Jenifer Michaels. A History.." Spectator 45, No. 2 (Spring 2025): 42-50.
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The Version of Record was published in print by Spectator in Spring of 2025, and as of Dec 2025 has not been published online. Please visit journal website at https://cinema.usc.edu/mediastudies/spectator/index.cfm to check for the published version.