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)

10.1057/9781137309730 - Women, Pleasure, Film, Simon Richter

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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