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Showing posts with label brigitte bardot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brigitte bardot. Show all posts
29 Aug 2022

Not All Sex Kittens are Catty ...

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  Cover of the French magazine   Noir et Blanc (12 June 1959)     Despite the best efforts of the press in the 1950s to create a rivalry be...
17 Aug 2022

B is for ... Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard

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B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...
16 May 2018

Simone de Beauvoir: Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (Pt. 2)

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IV. BB and the Feminine Mystique Four years after de Beauvoir published her fascinating little study of Bardot and the Lolita syn...

Simone de Beauvoir: Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (Pt. 1)

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I. Initials BB In 1959, Brigitte Bardot - the world's most outrageously sensual film star - was the subject of a 64-page stu...
10 Aug 2017

In Praise of the Ballet Flat

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Brigitte Bardot wearing her red Repetto ballet pumps  in And God Created Woman  (dir, Roger Vadim, 1956) I have voiced my aesthe...
6 Feb 2017

Jump! On Defying the Spirit of Gravity (With Reference to the Work of Philippe Halsman)

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If there's one thing to which Zarathustra makes himself supremely hostile above all other things, it's der Geist der Schwer...
19 Aug 2016

On the History and Politics of the Bikini

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A bikini-clad 19-year-old Brigitte Bardot  at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 Someone writes to say that my recently published po...