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Working Girls
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Independent films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1986
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden's immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born In Flames, WORKING GIRLS reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances nurturing relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office
- Participant:
- Amanda Goodwin, Ellen McElduff, Louise Smith
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1986
- Publisher Number:
- 14376081 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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