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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elspeth H. BrownPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781478000334ISBN 10: 1478000333 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 28 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Illustrations xiii Introduction 1 1. From the Artist's Model to the Photographic Model: Containing Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century 25 2. Race, Sexuality, and the 1920s Stage Model 69 3. Queering Interwar Fashion: Photographers, Models, and the Queer Production of the ""Look"" 103 4. Black Models and the Invention of the US: ""Negro Market,"" 1945-1960 163 5. ""You've Got to Be Real"": Constructing Femininity in the Long 1970s 211 Epilogue 271 Notes 277 Bibliography 313 Index 337"ReviewsModelling is a queer business in every sense of that word. Brown's exploration of it is fascinating: intelligent and unexpected in the turns that its analysis takes. This is no glib foray into celebrity culture, no superficial survey of supermodels. . . . A strikingly original, non-normative telling of 20th-century culture. -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education * Whether it's the showgirls of the 1920s, fashion photographer George Platt Lynes spearheading 'queer glamour' in the 1930s, or the groundbreaking Black models of the 1950s and '60s, Brown's book will reshape our understanding of the modeling industry. -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Magazine * Whether it's the showgirls of the 1920s, fashion photographer George Platt Lynes spearheading 'queer glamour' in the 1930s, or the groundbreaking Black models of the 1950s and '60s, Brown's book will reshape our understanding of the modeling industry. -- Evette Dionne * Bitch Magazine * Author InformationElspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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