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Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema
eBook - New Takes on Fallen Women, Global Cinema
ISBN/EAN: 9783319646084
Umbreit-Nr.: 4220914
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 3.68 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 30.10.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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- Zusatztext
- <p>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 19<sup>th</sup>-century narratives of female prostitutionhence the label fallen womenare 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.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <div><p><b>Danielle Hipkins</b> 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<i>Italys Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1940-1965</i> (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).</p><b>Kate Taylor-Jones</b> is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-editor of<i>International Cinema and the Girl</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has published widely in a variety of fields. Her latest monograph study is<i>Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy</i>, published in 2017. Kate is editor-in-chief of the<i>East Asian Journal of Popular Culture</i>.<p></p></div><p></p>