Bond Girls
Subtitle: Body, Fashion and Gender
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780857855329
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; James bond films; Motion picture actors and actresses; Objectivity
Description: "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"--