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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ritzenhoff, Karen A., editor.

McAvoy, Catriona, 1978- editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitutes in motion pictures.

Prostitution in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [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. Book jacket.

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, you got my dollar, don't I get something for it?" : 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 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

What happens to the money shot? why zombie porn can't get the audience to bite / James J. Ward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1442253533

9781442253537

OCLC:

905700170

Publisher Number:

99964100710