Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema

New Takes on Fallen Women

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Sous la direction de Danielle Hipkins et Kate Taylor-Jones

Type

Essays

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

sex, representation

Année d'édition

2017

Editeur

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Global Cinema

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 311 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-319-64607-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term prostitute can cover a variety of experiences and representations that are both repressive and also have the potential to empower women and disrupt cultural expectations. The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution―hence the label ‘fallen women’―are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.

À propos des auteurs :
Danielle Hipkins is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. She has written on gender representation in post-war Italian cinema, and has recently published Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1940-1965 (2016). She is currently working on girlhood and contemporary European cinema, and was a Co-investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘Italian Cinema Audiences’ project, a study of memories of cinema-going in Italy of the 1950s with the Universities of Bristol and Oxford Brookes (2013-2016).Kate Taylor-Jones is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-editor of International Cinema and the Girl (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has published widely in a variety of fields. Her latest monograph study is Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy, published in 2017. Kate is editor-in-chief of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.

Revue de Presse:
"From Romania to Nigeria, Mexico to Hong Kong, this lively anthology crosses continents with its stimulating inquiry into the sex trade and its portrayal on screen. Well-researched and provocatively argued, these in-depth interdisciplinary studies reveal how ambivalently contemporary cultures continue to view the figure of the female prostitute." (Russell Campbell, author of Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema)

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