Selling sex on screen : from Weimar cinema to zombie porn

Selling sex on screen : from Weimar cinema to zombie porn / edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Catriona McAvoy.

This collection of essays explores the representation of women and sexual transactions in film and television. Included are discussions of such films and programs as Breakfast at Tiffany's, Eyes wide shut, L.A. confidential, Pandora's box, Shame, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gigolos. By e...

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Other Authors: Ritzenhoff, Karen A. (Editor), McAvoy, Catriona, 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Prostitutes in motion pictures.
Prostitution in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Prostitutes in motion pictures
Prostitution in motion pictures
Sex in motion pictures
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy
  • The sexual economy and the new woman: images of prostitution in Weimar cinema / Tom Saunders
  • Early representations of female prostitution in Pandora's box / Clémentine Tholas-Disset
  • How the production code tapped out the mother lode: women, sex, and Busby Berkeley's Gold diggers films / Tiel Lundy
  • "Birdie, don't I get something for my dollar?" the "tutor-code" of sex trade in the golden age of television westerns / Gaylyn Studlar
  • Economics, empathy, and expectation: history and representation of rape and prostitution in late 1980s Vietnam War films / Amanda Boczar
  • She wolves: the monstrous women of nazisploitation cinema / Brian E. Crim
  • Delicate reports: prostitution in Sergio Martino's Mondo film wages of sin (Mille Peccati Nessuna virtù, 1969) / Andreas Ehrenreich
  • Cha ching!: getting paid in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Showtime's Gigolos / Janet Robinson
  • Machines, mirrors, martyrs, and money: prostitutes and promiscuity in Steve McQueen's Shame (2011) and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut / Catriona McAvoy and Karen A. Ritzenhoff
  • "They're selling an image": "hookers cut to look like movie stars" in L.A. confidential / Rochelle Sara Miller
  • Selling sex, along with everything else: "darla" as mark(et)ed woman in Joss Whedon's Buffy, the vampire slayer / Wendy Sterba
  • Whatever happens to the money shot? why zombie porn can't get the audience to bite / James J. Ward.

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