The "Happy Hooker," for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the "Avenger," a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. 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.
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. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, as did Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. Marked Women will be the basic reference point for anyone doing any further work in the subject of representations of female prostitution in world cinema."-Chuck Kleinhans, coeditor of Jump Cut So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna C "Definitive. Marked Women will be the basic reference point for anyone doing any further work in the subject of representations of female prostitution in world cinema."-Chuck Kleinhans, coeditor of Jump Cut Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman.