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.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitutes in motion pictures.

Prostitution in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>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. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Preface: "She Isn't a Hooker. She's, Like, an International Party-Girl": Language, (Mis)identification, and Selling Sex on Screen; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Sexual Economy and the New Woman Images of Prostitution in Weimar Cinema; Chapter 2. Early Representations of Female Prostitution in Pandora's Box; Chapter 3. How the Production Code Tapped Out the Mother Lode: Women, Sex, and Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers Films; "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

Economics, Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War FilmsChapter 6. She Wolves: The Monstrous Women of Nazisploitation Cinema; Chapter 7. Delicate Reports: Prostitution in Sergio Martino's Mondo Film Wages of Sin (Mille peccati . . . nessuna virtù); Chapter 8. Cha Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Showtime's Gigolos; Chapter 9. Machines, Mirrors, Martyrs, and Money: Prostitutes and Promiscuity in Steve McQueen's Shame and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

Chapter 10. "They're Selling an Image": "Hookers Cut to Look Like Movie Stars" in L.A. ConfidentialChapter 11. Selling Sex, along with Everything Else: Darla as Mark(et)ed Woman in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Chapter 12. What Happens to the Money Shot?: Why Zombie Porn Can't Get the Audience to Bite; Index; About the Editorsand Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-88-8183-100-4

1-4422-5354-1

OCLC:

913869408