Table of Contents
List of Plates |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction: Sex and the Goddess |
Chapter One: Sex as Cinematic Capital: Jean Harlow and the Economy of the Gold Digger |
Chapter Two: Sex as Cinematic “Queening”: Mae West Decamps |
Chapter Three: Sex as Cinematic Code: Lana Turner and the Duplicity of the Femme Fatale |
Chapter Four: Sex as Cinematic Eroticism: Jayne Mansfield's Breasts |
Conclusion: The American Sex Goddess is Legally Blonde |
Notes |
Biographies and Filmographies |
Select Bibliography |