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Selling Sex on Screen
From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn
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2015
Summary
Whether in mainstream or independent films, depictions of female prostitution and promiscuity are complicated by their intersection with male fantasies. In such films, issues of exploitation, fidelity, and profitability are often introduced into the narrative, where sex and power become commodities traded between men and women.
In Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn, Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy have assembled essays that explore the representation of women and sexual transactions in film and television. Included in these discussions are the films Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Eyes Wide Shut, L.A. Confidential, Pandora’s Box, and Shame and such programs as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gigolos. By exploring the themes of class differences and female economic independence, the chapters go beyond textual analysis and consider politics, censorship, social trends, laws, race, and technology, as well as sexual and gender stereotypes.
By exploring this complex subject, Selling Sex on Screen offers a spectrum of representations of desire and sexuality through the moving image. This volume will be of interest not only to students and scholars of film but also researchers in gender studies, women’s studies, criminology, sociology, film studies, adaptation studies, and popular culture.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-5353-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-5354-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface: “She Isn’t a Hooker. She’s, Like, an International Party-Girl”: Language, (Mis)identification, and Selling Sex on Screen No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. The Sexual Economy and the New Woman Images of Prostitution in Weimar Cinema No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2. Early Representations of Female Prostitution in Pandora’s Box No access Pages 23 - 34
Chapter 3. How the Production Code Tapped Out the Mother Lode: Women, Sex, and Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers Films No access Pages 35 - 52
“Birdie, You Got My Dollar, Don’t I Get Something for It?”: The “Tutor-Code” of Sex Trade in the Golden Age of Television Westerns No access Pages 53 - 68
Economics, Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War Films No access Pages 69 - 94
Chapter 6. She Wolves: The Monstrous Women of Nazisploitation Cinema No access Pages 95 - 110
Chapter 7. Delicate Reports: Prostitution in Sergio Martino’s Mondo Film Wages of Sin (Mille peccati . . . nessuna virtù) No access Pages 111 - 130
Chapter 8. Cha Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Showtime’s Gigolos No access Pages 131 - 152
Chapter 9. Machines, Mirrors, Martyrs, and Money: Prostitutes and Promiscuity in Steve McQueen’s Shame and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut No access Pages 153 - 172
Chapter 10. “They’re Selling an Image”: “Hookers Cut to Look Like Movie Stars” in L.A. Confidential No access Pages 173 - 188
Chapter 11. Selling Sex, along with Everything Else: Darla as Mark(et)ed Woman in Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer No access Pages 189 - 206
Chapter 12. What Happens to the Money Shot?: Why Zombie Porn Can’t Get the Audience to Bite No access Pages 207 - 228
Index No access Pages 229 - 242
About the Editorsand Contributors No access Pages 243 - 248
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