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Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema
New Takes on Fallen Women, Global Cinema
ISBN/EAN: 9783319878348
Umbreit-Nr.: 6776688
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xvi, 295 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 19 farbige Illustr.,
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Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 24.08.2018
Auflage: 1/2017
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- Addresses how increasing public attention towards the trafficking of women and girls has resulted in the narrative of the prostitute (forced or enforced) being entwined with discourses and debates on immigration, intentional patterns of abuse, and global economic inequalitiesThe first edited volume to identify transnational trends in the representation of prostitution, sex work, and sex trafficking in visual mediaDemonstrates how frequently nineteenth-century narratives of female prostitution are still recycled in contemporary visual contextsOffers case studies from around the globe including the cinema of Nigeria, India, South Korea, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Romania and GermanyIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Autorenportrait
- 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.