Bond girls: body, fashion and gender

"Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through...

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Main Author: Germanà, Monica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2020
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Links:https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474204057?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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Summary:"Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Online-Ausgabe erschienen bei Bloomsbury Fashion Central: 2021
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (249 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781474204057
9781350124714
DOI:10.5040/9781474204057