The woman on the table: Moral and medical discourse in the exploitation cinema.

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    • Subject Terms:
      MOM & Dad (Film); BECAUSE of Eve (Film); SEX Madness (Film); NARCOTIC (Film)
    • Abstract:
      The article examines the use of a medical discourse in exploitation cinema of the 1930s and 1940s that offers a vision of woman as inert text, which is informed by conventions of classical Hollywood cinema, as well as by cultural representations of science. It discusses the exploitation films "Mom and Dad," "Because of Eve," "Sex Madness," "Narcotic," "Road to Ruin," "Maniac," and "Tomorrow's Children," which detailed a concept of difference in woman, which has been instrumental in fetishizing female sexuality as pathological.