Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, and Kane Race
Part I: Essays
1. Getting It Just Right: Elizabeth Berkley's Ways of Knowing in Showgirls, by Anna Breckon
2. Self-Shattering in Showgirls and Black Swan, by Kane Race
3. "Ain't anyone ever been nice to you?": Discharging the Guilty Pleasure of Showgirls, by Kieryn McKay
4. Badness, by Adrian Martin
5. Showgirls, Showgirls 2, and the Fate of the Erotic Thriller, by Billy Stevenson
6. Fifty Shades of Showgirls: Better Living through Mediation, by Melissa Hardie
7. The Instability of Evil: Double Trouble and the Working Girl, by Meaghan Morris
Part II: Conversations
8. The Accidental Showgirl: Reminiscing with Performer and Pioneer Feminist, Lynne Hutton-Williams, by Jane Chi Hyun Park and Shawna Tang
9. "Fuck you! Pay me": Stripper Art and Storytelling Speaking Back from the Stage, by Zahra Stardust
10. On Cliché, Camp, and Queer Temporality: Discussing Showgirls, by Kara Keeling and Meaghan Morris
Part III: Archive
11. Loose Slots: Figuring the Strip in Showgirls, by Melissa Hardie
12. Round Table: Showgirls, Film Quarterly 56, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 32–46
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