Designing Women (Film and Culture Series)
Editorial Reviews Review
"Lucy Fischer's book is fueled by love... and enlivened by her zest for finding and analyzing the presence of Art Deco in unlikely places. Her research is meticulous.... This book is a very entertaining investigation of a style still much loved today." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Friendly to the general reader...It's hard not to be charmed...It's an extremely stimulating red." -- The Sophisticate Review
"A beautiful, and beautifully illustrated, book that is a real pleasure to read. Indeed, rarely has a feminist-inspired study of film exhibited so much pure pleasure. The chapter on Art Deco and the Movie Musical is a sheer delight." -- Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley
"From the pages of women's magazines to the salons and counters of department stores to the set design of Hollywood films, the Art Deco style moderne was used to market modernity and elegance. In Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form, Lucy Fischer uses her personal attraction to the Deco style -- a collecting urge that fuels her scholarship -- to revisit the pages and films of the past with an analytic ardor. Fischer examines the figuration of a female body in Deco-infused cosmetics, jewelry, clothing, housewares, furniture, graphic design, fashion shows, and architecture. Designing Women offers a vivid contribution to the study of American material culture -- its surfaces and effects -- and the female consumers who fell under its spell." -- Anne Friedberg, associate professor of film and visual studies, University of California, Irvine Designing Women (Film and Culture Series)
Designing Women (Film and Culture Series),Lucy Fischer,Columbia University Press,0231125011,Art & Art Instruction,Art and motion pictures,Art deco,Film & Video - General,History - Contemporary (1945- ),Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Women in art,Women in motion pictures,Women's Studies - General
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