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Shoe reels : the history and philosophy of footwear in film / edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Catherine Wheatley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ezra, Elizabeth, Author.
- Series:
- Films and fashions.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Films and fashions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fashion in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Footwear in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, 'Shoe Reels' explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the context of narrative, aesthetics and symbolism, why they are so memorable, and what their wider cultural resonances might be.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Foot Notes; 1: Max's Stylish Shoes, Margaret C. Flinn; 2: A Girl and A Shoe: Marcel Fabre's Amor Pedestre (1941), Malgorzata Bugaj; 3: 'An intensive study of - feet!' in two films by Lois Weber: Shoes and The Blot, Pamela Hutchinson; 4: MAGIC SHOES: Dorothy, Cinderella, Carrie, Elizabeth Ezra; 5: The Ruby Slippers at the V&A: An Odyssey, Keith Lodwick; 6: Blood-red shoes? Ian Christie; 7: The Two Textures of Invisibility: Shoes as Liminal Questionings in Sullivan's Travels, Kelli Fuery; 8: How to See through a Shoe: The Fashion Show Sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire, Ana Salzberg; 9: Frenetic Footwear and Lively Lace-Ups: the Spectacle of Shoes in Golden Age Hollywood Animation, Christopher Holliday; 10: Ferragamo's Shoes: From Silent Cinema to the present, Eugenia Paulicelli; 11: Feet of Strength: The Sword-and-Sandals Film, Robert A. Rushing; 12: Men in Boots: On Spectacular Masculinity and its Desublimation, Louise Wallenberg; 13: 'The brunette with the legs': the significance of footwear in Marnie, Lucy Bolton; 14: The Sole of Africa: Shoes in Three African Films, Rachael Langford; 15: Slippers and Heels: In the Mood for Love and Sartorial Investigation, Tyler Parks; 16: Sex, Corruption and Killer Heels: Footwear in the Korean Corporate Crime Drama, Kate Taylor-Jones; 17: It's Gotta Be the Shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere, Jeff Scheible; 18: 'Nice Shoes': Will Smith, Mid-2000s (Post) Racial Discourse and the Symbolic Significance of Shoes in I, Robot (Alex Proyas, 2004) and The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino, 2006), Hannah Hamad; 19: 'Whoa! Look at all her Louboutins!' Girlhood and Shoes in the films of Sofia Coppola, Fiona Handyside; 20: Isabelle's Espadrilles. Or, les chaussures d'Huppert, Catherine Wheatley.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-9533-8
- 1-4744-5142-X
- OCLC:
- 1312726287
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