Marked Women
Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character type…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-299-21254-4
- EAN: 9780299212544
- Produktnummer: 1417822
- Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 472 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 635 g
- Abbildungen: 76 b&w film stills
- Gewicht: 635
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Russell Campbell is senior lecturer in the Film Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Cinema Strikes Back: Radical Filmmaking in the United States, 1930 - 1942. Campbell was the founding editor of The Velvet Light Trap and is also a professional script consultant and documentary filmmaker.
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