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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255092603321

Titolo

Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema : New Takes on Fallen Women / / edited by Danielle Hipkins, Kate Taylor-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-64608-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 295 p. 22 illus., 19 illus. in color.)

Collana

Global Cinema, , 2634-5951

Disciplina

791.436538

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Women

Culture

Gender

Communication

Global Cinema and TV

Women's Studies

Culture and Gender

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.