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Hollywood and the Female Body - A History of Idolization and Objectification (Paperback)
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Hollywood and the Female Body - A History of Idolization and Objectification (Paperback)
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From the first, brief moving images of female nudes in the 1880s to
the present, the motion picture camera made the female body a
battleground in what we now call the culture wars. Churchmen feared
the excitation of male lust; feminists decried the idealization of
a body type that devalued the majority of women. This history of
Hollywood's treatment of women's bodies traces the full span of the
motion picture era. Primitive peepshow images of burlesque dancers
gave way to the "artistic" nudity of the 1910s when model Audrey
Munson and swimmer Annette Kellerman contended for the title of
American Venus. Clara Bow personified the qualified sexual freedom
of the 1920s flapper. Jean Harlow, Mae West and the scantily clad
chorus girls of the early 1930s provoked the Legion of Decency to
demand the creation of a Production Code Administration that turned
saucy Betty Boop into a housewife. Things loosened up during World
War II when Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth ruled the screen. The
postwar years saw the blonde bombshells and "Mammary madness" of
the 1950s while the 1960's brought bikini-clad sex kittens. With
the replacement of the Production Code by a ratings system in 1968,
nudity and sex scenes proliferated in the R-rated movies of the
1970s and 1980s. Recent movies, often directed by women, have
pointed the way toward a more egalitarian future. Finally, the
#MeToo movement and the fall of Harvey Weinstein have forced the
industry to confront its own sexism. Each chapter of this book
situates movies, famous and obscure, into the context of changes in
the movie industry and the larger society.
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