Selling Sex on Screen

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. Ritzenhoff is the coeditor of Heroism and Gender in War Films (2014) with Jakub Kazecki; Border Visions: Diaspora and Identity in Film (2013) with Jakub Kazecki and Cynthia J. Miller; Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro- Horror to American Cinema (2012) with Karen Randell; and Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (2009) with Katherine Hermes. In 2011, she also coedited a special media journal, Augenblick: Images of the Iraq War (with Angela Krewani). Catriona McAvoy is a filmmaker based in London. She runs a digital onset and lab services company, First-Light.tv. She wrote a chapter in the book Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives (2015) and interviews with cast and crew in Studies in the Horror Film: The Shining Vol. 1 & 2 (2015), as well as an article in the forthcoming “Kubrick and Adaptation” special issue in the journal Adaptation (2015).

Acknowledgments
Preface: Deborah Jermyn
IntroductionKaren A. Ritzenhoff and Catriona McAvoy
Chapter 1: The Sexual Economy and the New Woman: Images of Prostitution in Weimar Cinema
Tom Saunders
Chapter 2: Early representations of female prostitution in Pandora’s Box (1929)
Clémentine Tholas-Disset
Chapter 3: How the Production Code Tapped Out the Mother Lode: Women, Sex, and Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers Films
Tiel Lundy
Chapter 4: “Birdie, don’t I get something for my dollar?” The “Tutor-Code” of Sex Trade in the Golden Age of Television Westerns
Gaylyn Studlar
Chapter 5: Economics, Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War Films
Amanda Boczar
Chapter 6: She Wolves: The Monstrous Women of Nazisploitation Cinema
Brian E. Crim
Chapter 7: Delicate Reports: Prostitution in Sergio Martino’s mondo film Wages of Sin (Mille peccati…nessuna virtù, 1969)
Andreas Ehrenreich
Chapter 8: Cha Ching!: Getting Paid in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Showtime’s Gigolos
Janet Robinson
Chapter 9: Machines, Mirrors, Martyrs, and Money: Prostitutes and Promiscuity in Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011) and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Catriona McAvoy and Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Chapter 10: “They’re Selling an Image:” “Hookers Cut to Look Like Movie Stars” in L.A. Confidential (1997)
Rochelle Sara Miller
Chapter 11: Selling Sex, along with everything else: “Darla” as Mark(et)ed Woman in Joss Whedon’s Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Wendy Sterba
Chapter 12: What Happens to the Money Shot? Why Zombie Porn Can’t Get the Audience to Bite
James J. Ward
Index
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