Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema

465 Pages·2006·4.58 MB·English

by  Russell Campbell

MARKED WOMEN

MARKED WOMEN
PROSTITUTES AND
PROSTITUTION
IN THE CINEMA
Russell Campbell
    
This book was published with the support of the Community Media Trust of Wellington,
New Zealand, and a research grant from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
at the Victoria University of Wellington.
The University of Wisconsin Press
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Madison, Wisconsin 53711
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Russell Campbell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Campbell, Russell.
Marked women : prostitutes and prostitution in the cinema / Russell Campbell.
p. cm. — (Wisconsin film studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
0-299-21250-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0-299-21254-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Prostitutes in motion pictures. I. Title. II. Series.
1995.9.7636 2005
791.43'6692—dc22
2005008259
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Epigraph Credits xiii
1 The Sex Trade and the Cinema 3
2 Depicting Prostitution under Patriarchy 21
3 Gigolette 40
4 Siren 61
5 Comrade 81
6 Avenger 104
7 Martyr 125
8 Gold Digger 147
9 Nursemaid 167
10 Captive 186
11 Business Woman 207
12 Happy Hooker 230
13 Adventuress 249
14 Junkie 265
15 Baby Doll 285
16 Working Girl 305
17 The Love Story 319
18 Prostitute and Pimp 341
19 Condemned to Death 360
20 The Paradigm and Its Challengers 381
Notes 391
Index 427
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Traffic in Souls 17
2. Pretty Woman:Julia Roberts 34
3. Dirnentragödie 36
4. The Docks of New York 44
5. Hôtel du Nord 47
6. Casque d’Or 50
7. The Ballad of Cable Hogue 56
8. Last Exit to Brooklyn 60
9. Pandora’s Box 66
10. Sadie Thompson 70
11. Rain 70
12. Eve 73
13. La Fiancée du pirate 79
14. Jenseits der Strasse 86
15. Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück 87
16. Love and Anarchy 95
17. Whity 97
18. Never on Sunday 98
19. Libertarias 101
20. Diary of a Lost Girl:Louise Brooks 108
21. The Naked Kiss 110
22. Jeanne Dielman 114
23. Utopie 115
24. Unforgiven 118
25. Whore 128
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viii Illustrations
26. Anna Christie 131
27. Rocco and His Brothers 137
28. The Nights of Cabiria 139
29. Purge 145
30. Es cas de malheur 156
31. Manon 159
32. Faces 178
33. Die Sünderin 184
34. Marked Woman 190
35. Les Compagnes de la nuit 193
36. The Flesh is Weak 194
37. Passport to Shame 196
38. Shirins Hochzeit 205
39. Das Mädchen Rosemarie(poster) 211
40. The Balcony 214
41. Personal Services 222
42. The Happy Hooker 223
43. Domina—Die Last der Lust 225
44. Beverly Hills Madam 228
45. Diary of a Lost Girl:brothel sequence 231
46. Irma La Douce 234
47. Tom Jones 235
48. Gaily, Gaily 241
49. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 247
50. Die Lady 253
51. Belle de Jour 256
52. Romance 263
53. Liebe kann wie Gift sein 270
54. The Panic in Needle Park 271
55. Christiane F.—Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo 278
56. La Ville est tranquille 282
57. Pretty Baby 290
Illustrations ix
58. Angel 291
59. Salaam Bombay! 296
60. Stella Does Tricks 303
61. Prostitute:Eleanor Forsythe and Kate Crutchley 308
62. Prostitute:Eleanor Forsythe 310
63. Working Girls 312
64. Klute 321
65. The World of Suzie Wong 324
66. Pretty Woman:Julia Roberts and Richard Gere 327
67. Red Dust 329
68. Mona Lisa 337
69. Dirty Daughters—Die Hure und der Hurensohn 339
70. Accattone 347
71. The Mack 352
72. Vice Squad 355
73. Peeping Tom 371
74. From the Life of the Marionettes 373
75. Broken Mirrors 379
76. Vivre sa vie 385