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The Resource Work! : a queer history of modeling, Elspeth H. Brown

Work! : a queer history of modeling, Elspeth H. Brown

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Summary
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In 'Work!' Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s. Brown outlines how the modeling industry sanitized and commercialized models' sex appeal in order to elicit and channel desire into buying goods. She shows how this new form of sexuality-whether exhibited in the Ziegfeld Follies girls' performance of Anglo-Saxon femininity or in African American models' portrayal of black glamour in the 1960s-became a central element in consumer capitalism and a practice that has always been shaped by queer sensibilities. By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xviii, 348 pages
Contents
  • "From the artist's model to the photographic model : containing sexuality in the early twentieth century
  • Race, sexuality, and the 1920s stage model
  • Queering interwar fashion : photographers, models, and the queer production of the "look"
  • Black models and the invention of the US "Negro market," 1945-1960
  • "You've got to be real" : constructing femininity in the long 1970s
Isbn
9781478000334
Instance
Label
Work! : a queer history of modeling
Title
Work!
Title remainder
a queer history of modeling
Statement of responsibility
Elspeth H. Brown
Title variation
Queer history of modeling
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In 'Work!' Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s. Brown outlines how the modeling industry sanitized and commercialized models' sex appeal in order to elicit and channel desire into buying goods. She shows how this new form of sexuality-whether exhibited in the Ziegfeld Follies girls' performance of Anglo-Saxon femininity or in African American models' portrayal of black glamour in the 1960s-became a central element in consumer capitalism and a practice that has always been shaped by queer sensibilities. By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1961-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Brown, Elspeth H.
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Photography of women
  • Fashion photography
  • Commercial photography
  • Models (Persons)
  • Women in popular culture
  • Femininity in popular culture
  • Sex in advertising
  • Queer theory
  • Commercial photography
  • Photographie des femmes
  • Photographie de mode
  • Photographie commerciale
  • Mannequins (Personnes)
  • Femmes dans la culture populaire
  • Fémininité dans la culture populaire
  • Sexualité dans la publicité
  • Théorie queer
  • Photographie de femmes
  • Photographie commerciale
  • Féminité dans la culture populaire
  • Sexualité dans la publicité
  • PHOTOGRAPHY / General
  • Photography
  • Commercial photography
  • Fashion photography
  • Femininity in popular culture
  • Models (Persons)
  • Queer theory
  • Sex in advertising
  • Women in popular culture
  • United States
  • Idee
  • Mannequin
  • Ästhetik
  • Fotomodell
  • Tänzerin
  • Werbefotografie
  • Photography
Label
Work! : a queer history of modeling, Elspeth H. Brown
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"From the artist's model to the photographic model : containing sexuality in the early twentieth century -- Race, sexuality, and the 1920s stage model -- Queering interwar fashion : photographers, models, and the queer production of the "look" -- Black models and the invention of the US "Negro market," 1945-1960 -- "You've got to be real" : constructing femininity in the long 1970s
Control code
1048939883
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xviii, 348 pages
Isbn
9781478000334
Lccn
2018041289
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1048939883
Label
Work! : a queer history of modeling, Elspeth H. Brown
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"From the artist's model to the photographic model : containing sexuality in the early twentieth century -- Race, sexuality, and the 1920s stage model -- Queering interwar fashion : photographers, models, and the queer production of the "look" -- Black models and the invention of the US "Negro market," 1945-1960 -- "You've got to be real" : constructing femininity in the long 1970s
Control code
1048939883
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xviii, 348 pages
Isbn
9781478000334
Lccn
2018041289
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1048939883

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