Women, Pleasure, Film What Lolas Want
The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. Lola embodies a recognizable set of characteristics through which over time a select group of di
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10.1057/9781137309730 - Women, Pleasure, Film, Simon Richter
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Women, Pleasure, Film
10.1057/9781137309730 - Women, Pleasure, Film, Simon Richter
Laocoon’s Body and the Aesthetics of Pain (1992) Unwrapping Goethe’s Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge (edited with Burkhard Henke and Susanne Kord, 2000) The Literature of Weimar Classicism (edited, 2005) Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment (2006)
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10.1057/9781137309730 - Women, Pleasure, Film, Simon Richter
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Women, Pleasure, Film
WOMEN, PLEASURE, FILM
Copyright © Simon Richter, 2013. All rights reserved.
Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-30972-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richter, Simon. Women, pleasure, film : what Lolas want / by Simon Richter. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-137-30972-3 (alk. paper) 1. Women in motion pictures. 2. Characters and characteristics in motion pictures. 3. Sex in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.W6R53 2013 791.43'6522—dc23
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List of Figures
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
1
Falling in Love Again . . . and Again and Again
1
2
The Give and Take of Naming
13
3
The Lola Revue: The Lola Film as Genre
21
4
Lola’s Song and Dance
39
5
Lola Doesn’t Kill and Lola Doesn’t Die
51
6
Cameras and Clowns
65
7
Lola’s Legs
79
8
Domesticating Lola
93
9
Lola’s Bedroom and the Staircase to Paradise
103
10 Portraits of Lola
115
11 Lola and Motherhood
127
12 Lola, Race, and Ethnicity
137
13 Carousels and Carnivals
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