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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPreface: Deborah JermynIntroductionKaren A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoyChapter 1: The Sexual Economy and the New Woman: Images of Prostitution in Weimar CinemaTom SaundersChapter 2: Early representations of female prostitution in Pandora's Box (1929)Clémentine Tholas-DissetChapter 3: How the Production Code Tapped Out the Mother Lode: Women, Sex, and Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers FilmsTiel LundyChapter 4: "Birdie, don't I get something for my dollar?" The "Tutor-Code" of Sex Trade in the Golden Age of Television WesternsGaylyn StudlarChapter 5: Economics, Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War FilmsAmanda BoczarChapter 6: She Wolves: The Monstrous Women of Nazisploitation CinemaBrian E. CrimChapter 7: Delicate Reports: Prostitution in Sergio Martino's mondo film Wages of Sin (Mille peccati...nessuna virtù, 1969)Andreas EhrenreichChapter 8: Cha Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Showtime's GigolosJanet RobinsonChapter 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. RitzenhoffChapter 10: "They're Selling an Image:" "Hookers Cut to Look Like Movie Stars" in L.A. Confidential (1997)Rochelle Sara MillerChapter 11: Selling Sex, along with everything else: "Darla" as Mark(et)ed Woman in Joss Whedon's Buffy, the Vampire SlayerWendy SterbaChapter 12: What Happens to the Money Shot? Why Zombie Porn Can't Get the Audience to BiteJames J. WardIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors...
