Bond girls : body, fashion and gender / Monica Germanà.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Germanà, Monica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James Bond films--History and criticism.

James Bond films.

Motion picture actors and actresses--Portraits.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Women in motion pictures--History.

Women in motion pictures.

Fashion in motion pictures.

Objectification (Social psychology).

Gender and Film.

Fashion History.

Bond, James (Fictitious character).

Bond, James.

Local Subjects:

Gender and Film.

Fashion History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249p. ; ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

text file

HTML

PDF

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Select James Bond Chronology

Introduction: Glamorous Eye-Candy? Bond Girls Revisited

1. 'Bond. James Bond': Masculinity and Its Discontents

2. Dark Continents: Fashion, Foreignness and Femininity

3. 'Cross-Dressing': From the Field to the Boardroom

4. Dressed to Kill: Power, Knowledge, Desire

Conclusion: Are Bond Girls Forever?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index.

ISBN:

9781474204057 : (ebk : Bloomsbury)

9780857855329

9781350124714

OCLC:

1126543916