The Sex Slave in Cinema : An Inegalitarian Spectacle

Skrodzka, Aga

Edinburgh University Press（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399508247
• DDC分類 791.436538

Full Description

This book examines the visual politics of the cinematic figure of the 'sex slave' from its origins in silent film to its iterations in blaxploitation cinema, European art cinema, Nollywood, and, in its most concentrated form, the Hollywood blockbuster thriller.

Through close analysis of several film texts that is informed by feminist theory, visual studies, critical race studies, and the political economy of sex work, this book argues that the sex slave has long functioned as a disciplinary spectacle that simultaneously commodifies and punishes female flesh. The sex slave is used to 'sell' a libidinal fantasy of rescue, not of the trafficked woman or child, but of the very economic and social order that exploits them.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Early Cinema, Erotic Spectacle and Sex Slavery

2. Sifting through Images: Sex Slave Iconography

3. Converging Slaves: The Case of Blaxploitation

4. White Slave: The Commodification and Securitization of Whiteness

Epilogue: Imagining Away Sex Slavery, toward a Counter-Narrative

Bibliography

Index