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Glamour in Six Dimensions

Author : Judith Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731246
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Glamour in Six Dimensions written by Judith Brown and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all. Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour's meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in Six Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others.

Wonderful Design

Author : Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190843845
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Design written by Lloyd Whitesell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic expression, extravagant sonic and visual decor, and extremely stylized forms of movement and performance. By staging a glittering spectacle, by releasing a current of lush sentiment, by unveiling a world of elegance and romance, the film musical woos us with patterns, textures, finesse and sensory display. In this book, author Lloyd Whitesell asks what, exactly, makes film musicals so glamorous. As he argues, glamour projects an aura of ethereality or sophistication by way of suave deportment, sensuous textures, elevated styles, and aesthetically refined effects. Glamour, in other words, is what unites "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat and the title song from Beauty and the Beast, each a sonic evocation of luxury, sparkle, grace, and finesse. Whitesell redirects our attention from visual cues like sequins and evening gloves to explore how glamour resides in the sonic. Discussing dozens of musical numbers, analyzing ingenious orchestration, and appraising the distinctive styles of favorite musical stars, Whitesell illuminates fundamental traits of the genre, its aesthetic strategies, and cultural ambitions.

The Power of Glamour

Author : Virginia Postrel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561110
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Glamour written by Virginia Postrel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of glamour, a potent cultural force that influences where people choose to live, which careers to pursue, where to invest, and how to vote, offers empowerment to be smarter about engaging with the world.

Sentimental Memorials

Author : Melissa Sodeman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804792798
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Sentimental Memorials written by Melissa Sodeman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and cultural debates rather than their literary significance. Sentimental Memorials, by contrast, argues that sentimental novels gave the women who wrote them a means of clarifying, protesting, and finally memorializing the historical conditions under which they wrote. As women writers successfully navigated the professional marketplace but struggled to position their works among more lasting literary monuments, their novels reflect on what the elevation of literature would mean for women's literary reputations. Drawing together the history of the novel, women's literary history, and book history, Melissa Sodeman revisits the critical frameworks through which we have understood the history of literature. Novels by Sophia Lee, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson, she argues, offer ways of rethinking some of the signal literary developments of this period, from emerging notions of genius and originality to the rise of an English canon. And in Sodeman's analysis, novels long seen as insufficiently literary acquire formal and self-historicizing importance.

Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli

Author : Ilya Parkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857853295
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli written by Ilya Parkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past. This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118488679
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Modernism Studies written by Jean-Michel Rabaté and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa

Modernist Impersonalities

Author : R. Rives
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137021888
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Impersonalities written by R. Rives and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity

Author : Jeff Wallace
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474461670
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity written by Jeff Wallace and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx

Grand Illusions

Author : David M. Lubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190218614
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Grand Illusions written by David M. Lubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, modernism, and the academic spirit -- Women in peril -- Mirroring masculinity -- Opposing visions -- Opening the floodgates -- To see or not to see -- Being there -- Behind the mask -- Monsters in our midst.

Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood

Author : Tom Lisanti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612412
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood written by Tom Lisanti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become “decorative actresses” appearing scantily clad on film and television. This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles, photographs, lists of major credits and, frequently, in-depth personal interviews. Included are Carol Wayne, Edy Williams, Inga Neilsen, Thordis Brandt, Jo Collins, Phyllis Davis, Melodie Johnson, and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood.

Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s

Author : Kate Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594313
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s written by Kate Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination. Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel, Luisita Leers, and the Flying Codonas, revealing what is performed and implicit in today’s practice. Using a wealth of original sources, this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport, glamour, and gender, this book asks important questions about their stardom, including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses? This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance, circus, gender, popular performance, and performance studies.

Samuel Beckett and Cinema

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472533232
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and Cinema written by Anthony Paraskeva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

The Shaken and the Stirred

Author : Stephen Schneider
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253052327
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Shaken and the Stirred written by Stephen Schneider and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the popularity of cocktails has returned with gusto. Amateur and professional mixologists alike have set about recovering not just the craft of the cocktail, but also its history, philosophy, and culture. The Shaken and the Stirred features essays written by distillers, bartenders and amateur mixologists, as well as scholars, all examining the so-called 'Cocktail Revival' and cocktail culture. Why has the cocktail returned with such force? Why has the cocktail always acted as a cultural indicator of class, race, sexuality and politics in both the real and the fictional world? Why has the cocktail revival produced a host of professional organizations, blogs, and conferences devoted to examining and reviving both the drinks and habits of these earlier cultures?

Celebrity, Convergence and Transformation

Author : Douglas Brownlie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351742701
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity, Convergence and Transformation written by Douglas Brownlie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the latest thinking on both celebrity brands and celebrity culture from academics specialising in the field of marketing, this book explores a range of insightful contexts in order to add vigour and vitality to our understanding of the connections between celebrities, markets and culture. It unpacks the identity theoretics which have their origins in the turn to celebrity culture and the spectacle and glamour of mass-media practices. In doing so, the contributors hint at new forms of individuation where the line between the virtual and the actual is blurred, and where images of celebrities construct and deconstruct themselves. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

Flags and Faces

Author : David M. Lubin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283635
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Flags and Faces written by David M. Lubin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 to the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, American artists and designers used their well-honed visual skills to campaign for or against intervention. During this period, Old Glory assumed its present role as a patriotic icon. After the war, as Americans tried to forget the horrors their soldiers had encountered abroad, medical advances in facial reconstruction for disfigured combatants gave rise to cosmetic plastic surgery and a flourishing makeup industry, elements in a conspicuously new distaste for plainness and aging and obsession with youth and beauty. Flags and Faces analyzes these respective aspects of American visual culture in the shadow of the First World War"--Provided by publisher.

Luxury

Author : Peter McNeil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199663246
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Luxury written by Peter McNeil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries.

Ornamentalism

Author : Anne Anlin Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190604611
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Ornamentalism written by Anne Anlin Cheng and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification and past the critique of Orientalism in order to formulate a fresher and sharper understanding of the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity. This book alters the foundational terms of racialized femininity by allowing us to conceptualize race and gender without being solely beholden to flesh or skin. Tracing a direct link between the making of Asiatic femininity and a technological history of synthetic personhood in the West from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Ornamentalism demonstrates how the construction of modern personhood in the multiple realms of law, culture, and art has been surprisingly indebted to this very marginal figure and places Asian femininity at the center of an entire epistemology of race. Drawing from and speaking to the multiple fields of feminism, critical race theory, visual culture, performance studies, legal studies, Modernism, Orientalism, Object Studies and New Materialism, Ornamentalism will leave reader with a greater understanding of what it is to exist as a "person-thing" within the contradictions of American culture.