The Sex Slave in Cinema : An Inegalitarian Spectacle
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1399508253
ISBN-13
9781399508254
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 2026
Print length
208 Pages
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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Examines cinema as a cultural venue that constructs and disseminates the sex slave figure on a visual plane.
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.
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