Selling Sex on Screen

From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn
Herausgeber: Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; McAvoy, Catriona

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Produktbeschreibung

The volume explores contemporary and historical films about "marked women" in various national cinema traditions. The essays focus on the depictions of prostitution and promiscuity in visual media from Silent Film in America to Weimar Cinema in Germany, the Golden Years in Hollywood, to the present. The book also touches on the Western genre, exploitation film, pornography, independent, and exploitation movies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442253537
• ISBN-10: 1442253533
• Artikelnr.: 42700405

Autorenporträt

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. Ritzenhoff is the coeditor of Heroism and Gender in War Films (2014) with Jakub Kazecki; Border Visions: Diaspora and Identity in Film (2013) with Jakub Kazecki and Cynthia J. Miller; Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro- Horror to American Cinema (2012) with Karen Randell; and Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (2009) with Katherine Hermes. In 2011, she also coedited a special media journal, Augenblick: Images of the Iraq War (with Angela Krewani). Catriona McAvoy is a filmmaker based in London. She runs a digital onset and lab services company, First-Light.tv. She wrote a chapter in the book Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives (2015) and interviews with cast and crew in Studies in the Horror Film: The Shining Vol. 1 & 2 (2015), as well as an article in the forthcoming "Kubrick and Adaptation" special issue in the journal Adaptation (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface: Deborah Jermyn IntroductionKaren A. Ritzenhoff and
Catriona McAvoy Chapter 1: The Sexual Economy and the New Woman: Images of
Prostitution in Weimar Cinema Tom Saunders Chapter 2: Early representations
of female prostitution in Pandora's Box (1929) Clémentine Tholas-Disset
Chapter 3: How the Production Code Tapped Out the Mother Lode: Women, Sex,
and Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers Films Tiel Lundy Chapter 4: "Birdie,
don't I get something for my dollar?" The "Tutor-Code" of Sex Trade in the
Golden Age of Television Westerns Gaylyn Studlar Chapter 5: Economics,
Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and
Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War Films Amanda Boczar Chapter 6: She
Wolves: The Monstrous Women of Nazisploitation Cinema Brian E. Crim Chapter
7: Delicate Reports: Prostitution in Sergio Martino's mondo film Wages of
Sin (Mille peccati...nessuna virtù, 1969) Andreas Ehrenreich Chapter 8: Cha
Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Showtime's Gigolos Janet
Robinson Chapter 9: Machines, Mirrors, Martyrs, and Money: Prostitutes and
Promiscuity in Steve McQueen's Shame (2011) and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide
Shut (1999) Catriona McAvoy and Karen A. Ritzenhoff Chapter 10: "They're
Selling an Image:" "Hookers Cut to Look Like Movie Stars" in L.A.
Confidential (1997) Rochelle Sara Miller Chapter 11: Selling Sex, along
with everything else: "Darla" as Mark(et)ed Woman in Joss Whedon's Buffy,
the Vampire Slayer Wendy Sterba Chapter 12: What Happens to the Money Shot?
Why Zombie Porn Can't Get the Audience to Bite James J. Ward Index About
the Editors and Contributors