Pin-Up Grrrls

Pin-Up Grrrls
Author: Maria Elena Buszek
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822337461

DIVA visual history about how feminist artists have appropriated and incorporated the signification of the pin-up genre within their own work./div

Bettie Page: The Princess and The Pin Up Collection

Bettie Page: The Princess and The Pin Up Collection
Author: David Avallone
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1524109894

The brand-new Queen of England has mysteriously vanished, and British Intelligence needs a helping hand from the world's greatest model spy! Can Bettie the First find Elizabeth the Second before the news gets out and panics all of Great Britain? Are UFOs involved? David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Julius Ohta (Sherlock Holmes), and Jordan Michael Johnson show you all the stuff they cut out of the THE CROWN, as Bettie returns in THE PRINCESS AND THE PINUP!

Pep Digital Vol. 066: Katy Keene: The Pin-Up Queen

Pep Digital Vol. 066: Katy Keene: The Pin-Up Queen
Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1627382607

Katy Keene, model/actress/singer extraordinaire, has been an inspiration for the fashion-conscious for years! Now, Archie Comics is pleased to bring you a digital-exclusive collection of some of Katy's most wonderful stories½and outfits! Katy certainly has her hands full with the Hollywood lifestyle she has. Glitz and glamour, famous boyfriends and runway rivals, and her little sister, Sis, is quite a balancing act! Can she keep it together and keep her fans wowed? Find out in this digital exclusive!

What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?
Author: André Bazin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520242289

These two volumes have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism.

Sex in Public

Sex in Public
Author: Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443808652

Despite decades of feminist awareness and activism, women continue to be portrayed in outdoor advertising in a limited and sexist manner. The fact that in public space audiences are exposed to such images without choice, renders the issue an important public policy concern. Sex in Public utilises a large outdoor advertising data collection to examine the contemporary outdoor advertising landscape, documenting the routine portrayal of women as thin, white, young and idle. This book examines why such portrayals are concerning for feminists as well as for public policy, and explores the advertising self-regulation systems that facilitate the display of such images. This book criticises sexist outdoor advertising as a form of sexual harassment given that imagery often bearing very strong semblance to pin-ups which would be outlawed in a workplace are readily displayed in public space, reflecting a troublesome public policy double standard. Understanding sexist outdoor advertising as a form of sexual harassment is a new framework that Sex in Public offers to understand, critique and condemn such images.

LIFE

LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1944-09-11
Genre:
ISBN:

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Beauty and Business

Beauty and Business
Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136692576

Beauty seems simple; we know it when we see it. But of course our ideas about what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors, and in Beauty and Business leading historians set out to provide this important cultural context. How have retailers shaped popular consciousness about beauty? And how, in turn, have cultural assumptions influenced the commodification of beauty? The contributors here look to particular examples in order to address these questions, turning their attention to topics ranging from the social role of the African American hair salon, and the sexual dynamics of bathing suits and shirtcollars, to the deeper meanings of corsets and what the Avon lady tells us about changing American values. As a whole, these essays force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought, and sold in modern America.

Famous Character Dolls

Famous Character Dolls
Author: Susan Brewer
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1844680940

Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, Susan Brewer, the author of British Dolls in the 1950s and British Dolls in the 1960s, the book starts with a series of essays setting dolls in context and exploring their role in popular culture. The main part of the book is an impressive A-Z of famous dolls, with symbols to show in which field they became famous (e.g. cartoons, toys or comic strips). The stories behind each of the dolls are told, including the tragic tale of Raggedy Ann and how a little girl inspired one of the most iconic character dolls of all time. A must-buy book for everyone who has ever own or collected dolls or is interested in popular culture. Did you know? - The author of Raggedy Ann, Johnny Gruelle, was a vehement anti-vaccination campaigner after his young daughter died when she was vaccinated at school without his consent - Angela Rippon created the Victoria Plum doll series based on a plum tree in her garden - Holly Hobbie is an author and illustrator who named the famous patchwork-wearing little girl after her. It became a popular doll in the 1970s

Practical Clock Repairing

Practical Clock Repairing
Author: Donald De Carle
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0719831075

The repair of clocks calls for a variety of skills and crafts, few of which can be 'picked up' by bench work alone. In the horological trade, it is technical practice that the 'prentice hand' is first tried out on clocks, before attempting repair work on watches. Clocks have the advantage of possessing sizeable and robust parts and of being easier to handle. But there the advantage for the repairer ends. The sizes, shapes, complications and even the nationalities of clocks appear to be without end. Every movement has detail difference and, naturally, the defects when due for repair, are as varied. In this book, the author has dealt with the usual faults likely to develop in each type of movement in general use; from the lordly grandfather to the humble alarm. All the tools and equipment are described and illustrated, together with the ways of using them. The craftsman's most important and valuable tools of all - his skilful fingers - are shown in use in the clearest manner. As is usual in N.A.G. Press textbooks, the drawings have been specially made from parts under working conditions. A glance through the book will show their usefulness and clarity. Over 400 line drawings are used throughout and the reader is left in no doubt of what he is asked to do in following the author's clearly written technical and practical instructions.