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October 12, 2006
Introducing the Lynne Stewart Prison Film Collection
As lawyer Lynne Stewart prepares for a stretch in the Big House, we at Kesher Talk want to help her in any way we can. Fortunately, many fine movies have described with great detail and accuracy the challenges and, yes, pleasures available to babes behind bars. So, as part of our fond farewelll, we'd like to give Lynne a cinematic primer on the next phase of her wanderings through the fascist hell that is Amerikkka.
The website Cathuria's "Bad Cinema Diary" deftly describes this exciting film genre, from its roots in the Italian "Women of Devil's Island" through Linda Blair's beloved 1980s classics "Caged Heat" and "Red Heat," concluding with the poignant "Chained Heat 2001: Slave Lovers."
The website's intro captures the subtly and glamour of the babes behind bars genre far beyond my ability to summarize, so here are excerpts:
The "Women in Prison" film has been a reliable subgenre of exploitation films since their beginnings in the teen "reform school" movies. Known as WIP films to cineastes, to less formal fans they are affectionately called the Chicks in Chains flicks. Most of these stick pretty close to formula: some third world hellhole of a hoosegow is filled with gorgeous babes who get to take a lot of showers; after 80 minutes of being mistreated, some flimsy pretense gives them the upper hand and they stage a bloody breakout in which all but two or three of the cast gets killed.There are several related sub-genres: captive women, JD, Nazi sleaze camps, etc. I'll limit this page to exploitation flicks of the traditional penitentiary motif -- they are gathered here partly to ease confusion over the frequent re-titlings these films suffered over the years.
First tips for Lynne: Learn how to tie your loosely buttoned blue denim prison blouse in a tight knot below your sternum. And don't go spouting "Allahu Akhbar" to the Aryan Nation gals.
Van | 10/12/06 at 11:21 AM | Categories: Sensual pleasures
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