Bond Girls
Body, Fashion and Gender
Edición de la obra Bond Girls
| Autor | Monica Germanà |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 264 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780857856432 |
| OCLC | 1115002952 |
| Número de Cutter | G373b |
"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"--