Dirix, Emmanuelle (2014) Birds of paradise: Feathers, fetishism and costume in classical Hollywood. Film, Fashion and Consumption, 3 (1). pp. 15-29. ISSN 20442823
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Dirix, Emmanuelle |
Description: | This article aims to investigate the reasons for the prolific use of feathers in 1930s Hollywood costume. Instead of positioning them merely as a spectacular tool of glamour in the Golden Age, it will focus on feathers as a form of material culture and specifically on their fetishistic nature in order to pose an alternative explanation for their sartorial popularity in a decade marked by the introduction of the Production/Hays Code. I wish to demonstrate that by shifting the methodological emphasis on feathers from object to subject, we open up an autonomous narrative for the material that would be missed when focusing only on its contextual reading. This in turn potentially offers a new dimension as to their use, in particular as a metaphor for female sexuality and therefore as a vehicle for reading 1930s cinematic sexuality. |
Official Website: | http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=18948/ |
Additional Information (Publicly available): | Emmanuelle Dirix was a guest editor of this issue. |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | censorship, classical Hollywood, glamour, feathers, fetishism, material culture |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Intellect |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts |
Date: | 1 March 2014 |
Digital Object Identifier: | 10.1386/ffc.3.1.15_1 |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2015 12:57 |
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2015 15:38 |
Item ID: | 7746 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/7746 |
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