Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuali

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Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present i

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This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute