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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Date: 2019
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 10-2013
DOI: 10.1386/CC.1.1.23_1
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 16-02-2011
Abstract: In 1965 Diana Rigg, aka Mrs Emma Peel, burst onto English television screens in the ‘spy-fi’ series The Avengers (Roy Baker, 1965) wearing, amongst other things, a skin-tight black vinyl catsuit. Her costumes offered a visual excess which reinforced the effects of the series’ highly stylized mise-en-scène. This visual excess was also played out in public life, where Mrs Peel’s clothes were available in retail outlets, and Diana Rigg as exemplary modern woman wore some of the styles both as public obligation and private pleasure. This article outlines the way the catsuit, as worn by Mrs Peel, is part of a technological nexus: its fabrication, its implicit and imminent activity and its sexual narrative. In her catsuit Mrs Peel represents and manifests the modern technological body, and this clothed body became central to conflict in The Avengers’ narrative. But despite being strapped to a drainpipe or bound into a catsuit Mrs Peel was always firmly in control.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 04-04-2016
Abstract: Mario Conte has had a tailor shop in King Street, Newtown since the mid 1960s. Taking an interview with Mario as its point of departure, this article describes the persistence of a skilled worker whose practices and techniques remain the same in a world that has long changed. While inattentive to what rules might be used to decorate a shop window, Mario continues to make and sew in the way that he learnt in post-war Italy. Mario’s persistence could be described as all the skills and other elements that need to be in place to keep him working, in particular the tradition of tailoring techniques he has remained true to over the last fifty years. The hand stitching of his tailoring is like a metronome of that persistence.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 13-11-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2013
Abstract: Set a month after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Tom Ford’s film A Single Man – based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood – crashes with emotion through memorable scenes set in snow and rain, by the fireplace and in the stylized rooms of the ultra modernist redwood and glass house designed by John Lautner (1949). While death is forever, this day in the life of George Falconer (played by Colin Firth) is an exercise in fine detail as the camera wrings new meaning from daily rituals lived in the shadow of death. This article examines the numerous ways in which Ford plays with the substance of life and death through the surfaces of the architecture, the grain of the film and the piercing portrayal of a day in the life of a man who cannot imagine his future.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 17-09-2012
Abstract: Why is it that we watch Mad Men and think it represents a period? Flashes of patterned wallpaper, whiskey neat, babies born that are never mentioned, contact lining for kitchen drawers, Ayn Rand, polaroids, skinny ties, Hilton hotels, Walter Cronkite, and a time when Don Draper can ask ‘What do women want?’ and dry old Roger Sterling can reply ‘Who Cares?’ This essay explores the embrace of period detail in Mad Men finding it to be both loving and fetishistic, and belonging, like all period film, to the politics of the present.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2014
Abstract: This article consists of a number of thoughts about and meditations on men’s underpants. Beginning with a ‘day in the life’ of a standard pair of underpants, it moves on to explore some of the specific characteristics that accompany the wearing of this particular garment. There follows a consideration of the role played by underpants in the creation of male characters for screen and television. A brief look at Homer Simpson’s Y-fronts is followed by the examination of a crucial moment in the history of Australian undergarments, namely the move from wool to cotton as the chief material of their manufacture. After an exploration of the humour that is often associated with men’s underpants the article finishes with a series of recollections that show how undergarments can be folded into the most intimate of memories.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 20-04-2018
Abstract: Editorial by Chris Healy, Katrina Schlunke, Prudence Black, Stephen Muecke, and Catherine Driscoll.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: The University of Sydney
Date: 2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 2018
Funder: Australian Research Council
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