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Title

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

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• McAvoy, Catriona, 1978-
• Ritzenhoff, Karen A.,

Description

xxxiii, 247 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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 exploring the themes of class differences and female economic indpendence, the essays go beyond textual analysis and consider politics, censorship, social trends, laws, race, technology, and sexual and gender stereotypes.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Prostitutes in motion pictures
• Prostitution in motion pictures
• Sex in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781442253537
• 1442253533

LCCN

2015011559

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library