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| published: | London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 |
| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 249 pages); illustrations |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474204057 |
| ISBN: |
9781474204057
9780857855329 9781350124714 9781350124707 |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Erscheint auch als: | Germanà, Monica, Bond girls, First published, London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020, xiv, 249 Seiten |
| Collection: | Verbunddaten SWB |
"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"-- 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. |