Prostitution and sex work in global cinema : new takes on fallen women /: new takes on fallen women. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Danielle Hipkins, Kate Taylor-Jones.
• Editors: Hipkins, Danielle E; Taylor-Jones, Kate E
• Contents: 1. Danielle Hipkins and Kate Taylor-Jones, Introduction I. Re-viewing the politics of poverty and pity 2. Jane Arthurs, Distant Suffering, Proper Distance: Cosmopolitan ethics in the film portrayal of trafficked women 3. Alice Bardan, 'Through Hardships To the Stars': The Moldovan prostitute in Nicolae Margineanu's Schimb Valutar II. Coming to the cinematic city in global modernity 4. Adam Bingham, Duality and Ambiguity: Prostitution, performance and the vagaries of modernity in Japanese cinema 5. Molly Hyo Kim, The Idealization of Prostitutes: Aesthetics and discourse of South Korean hostess films (1974-1982) 6. Saheed Aderinto, Inside the 'House of Ill Fame': Brothel prostitution, feminization of poverty, and Lagos life in Nollywood's The Prostitute III. Transgressive Women? 7. Niamh Thornton, Where Cabaret Meets Revolution: The prostitute at war in Mexican film 8. Teresa Ludden, Distorted Antigones: Dialectics and prostitution in Lola and Shirins Hochzeit IV. Suffering heroines revisited 9. Aparna Sharma, Becoming and Contradiction in the Muslim Courtesan — The case of Pakeezah 10. Danielle Hipkins and Katharine Mitchell, Le traviate: Suffering heroines and the Italian state between the 19th and 21st centuries 11. Katie N. Johnson, Consumptive Chic: The postfeminist recycling of Camille in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! V. Re-viewing women in the postmodern city 12. Fiona Handyside, Postcards and/of Prostitutes: Circulating the city in Atom Egoyan's Chloe 13. Kate Taylor-Jones, Handbags, Sex and Death: Prostitution in contemporary East Asian cinematic urban space Concluding Commentary.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 791.436538; Prostitutes in motion pictures; Prostitution in motion pictures; Prostitution -- History -- 19th century; Prostitutes -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319646084
• Related ISBNs: 9783319646077
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