Introduction / Danielle Hipkins and Kate Taylor-Jones. Part I. Re-Viewing the politics of poverty and pity. Distant suffering, proper distance: cosmopolitan ethics in the film portrayal of trafficked women / Jane Arthurs -- 'Through hardships to the stars':the Moldovan prostitute in Nicolae Margineanu's Schimb Valutar / Alice Bardan. Part II. Coming to the cinematic city in global modernity. Duality and ambiguity: prostitution, performance and the vagaries of modernity in Japanese cinema / Adam Bingham -- The idealization of prostitutes: aesthetics and discourse of South Korean hostess films (1974-1982) / Molly Hyo Kim -- Inside the 'house of ill fame': brothel prostitution, feminization of poverty, and Lagos life in Nollywood's The Prostitute / Saheed Aderinto. Part III. Transgressive women? Where cabaret meets revolution: the prostitute at war in Mexican film / Niamh Thornton -- Distorted Antigones: dialectics and prostitution in Lola and Shirins Hochzeit / Teresa Ludden. Part IV. Suffering heroines revisited. Becoming and contradiction in the Muslim courtesan-the case of Pakeezah / Aparna Sharma -- La Traviate: suffering heroines and the Italian state between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries / Danielle Hipkins and Katharine Mitchell -- Consumptive chic: the postfeminist recycling of Camille in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! / Katie N. Johnson. Part V. Re-Viewing women in the postmodern city. Postcards and/of prostitutes: circulating the city in Atom Egoyan's Chile / Fiona Handyside -- Handbags, sex, and death: prostitution in contemporary east Asian cinematic urban space / Kate Taylor-Jones. Concluding commentary: further takes on fallen women?
Summary:
"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."--Page 4 of cover.
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