TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Traffic in Souls: the 'new woman,' whiteness and mobile self-possession
JO  - Cultural geographies
A1  - Olund, Eric
SP  - 485
EP  - 504
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
N2  - Traffic in Souls (Universal, 1913) inaugurated a spate of so-called white slave pictures at it time the US was experiencing a moral panic over prostitution. The film enacts a sexual all racial geography oft lie industrial city, one that is mobile and aleatory and requires a similarity mobile yet self-possessed subject to navigate it mid its dangers successfully Social reformers staffing the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures sought to steel the narrative outcome of the Film toward a certain moral end, one that encouraged the production of a governmental subjectivity for its white, female spectators. This was a 'constructive' regulatory agenda toward sexuality through cinema that worked in tension with the more coercive statutory prohibition of prostitution, one thoroughly, is thoroughly racialized through its exclusion of African Americans from concern.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1474-4740
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474009340088
ID  - ref1
ER  -