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Tables of Contents for Sinema
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Sex! Sin! Sinema!
3
3
From Lillian Gish to Linda Lovelace
6
1
Screening the Phallic Symbol
7
3
The Perils of Whomever
10
3
A Contemporary Perspective
13
1
Who Was That Masked Woman?
14
2
Back to the Future
16
1
Forbidden Kisses
16
3
A Nation of Voyeurs
19
1
``Sinn the More in Secret''
20
3
Of Virgins and Vamps
23
1
From Vampire to Vamp
24
3
``The Horror! The Horror!''
27
2
The Color of Night
29
2
Once Is Not Enough
31
1
Movies as Modern Mythology
32
3
Soaring, Roaring Twenties!
35
2
Dirty Dancing
37
2
The Night They Raided Minsky's
39
3
The Charisma of the Unseen
42
2
``Take It All Off!''
44
4
Women and Men, Behaving Badly
48
2
But Back to the Dirty Thirties...
50
2
The Bad and the Blonde
52
4
Maureen and Hedy: Raw!
56
2
A Brief Autobiographical Interlude
58
2
Is There Life After X?
60
2
The Impossible Dream
62
1
Curse of the Cobra Woman
62
2
It Started With Eve
64
2
The Snake Pit
66
2
Thank Heaven for Little Girls
68
5
Who Killed JonBenet?
73
1
A Bed in Hell
74
2
Kiss of the Spider Woman
76
3
The Pain of Passion
79
1
A Glimpse of Stocking
80
2
The Presence of Absence
82
1
A Disease Called ``The Thigh''
83
3
Prisoner of Love
86
2
You Take My Breath Away
88
3
Life's a Drag
91
3
Kiss of Death
94
1
Love Stories Between Men
94
2
Classic Catfights
96
2
Tender Comrades
98
1
Leather Dyke/Lipstick Lesbian
99
2
Deliciously Deadly Dominatrix
101
3
Meet Marilyn
104
3
Middle America at Midcentury
107
2
Inching Toward a Sexual Revolution
109
2
Adultery for Adults
111
3
Birth of the Bikini
114
2
James in Bondage-Land
116
4
The New Victorians
120
2
Prelude to More Than a Kiss
122
2
Cruel Shoes
124
1
The Fetish Factory
125
2
I Lost It at the Movies
127
2
The Sensuous Stiletto
129
1
Made for Walking
129
4
The Lure of Leather
133
1
Biker Babes Go to Hell
134
2
The Dominatrix in Everyone
136
1
Look at Me: I'm Sandra Dee!
137
1
Lois in Leather
138
2
Killer Cleavage
140
2
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
142
3
Then Came Ginger...
145
1
Gun Crazy
146
3
Black Is Beautiful
149
2
Venus in Furs
151
3
Kitten With a Whip
154
3
Russ and Radley
157
3
The Nazi as Fantasy Figure
160
4
Porno Chic
164
1
A Different Kind of Censorship
165
2
Settling the Last Frontier
167
4
First Tangos in Hollywood
171
2
Cosmo Whore/Ms. Madonna
173
1
Like a Virgin/Not That Innocent
174
1
Strong and Beautiful
175
2
Calling Catwoman!
177
4
Good Girls Wear Black
181
4
The Phallic Female
185
2
Is Nudity Passe?
187
2
Fashion/Fantasy/Fetish/Film!
189
6
Selected Bibliography
195
4
Acknowledgments
199
2
Index
201
12
About the Author
213