Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl

How Do I Look?

Alison Carr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

120 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-28542-2 (ISBN)

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Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and discussions around what has been termed ‘sexualisation’ and ‘the gaze’. An account of the experience of being ‘looked at’, the book raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it, and what this means for feminism and the act of looking.

An embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and that women’s bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture, raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies – those of glamorous women on display – to become scapegoats for our deeper anxieties about consumerism.

Alison J. Carr is a contemporary art lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and an associate lecturer in the Fine Art and Media & Communication departments at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is an artist and writer whose works have been exhibited and performed in Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, London, Berlin, Giverny, Los Angeles, and Indiana.

Introduction

1. How Do They Look?

2. How Do I Look?: How Do I Feel as I Watch Showgirls?

3. How Do I Look?: Doing Showgirl

Conclusion: Showgirl Manifesto

Appendix: Showgirl Lexicon

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Sexualities in Society
Zusatzinfo	5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-28542-0 / 1138285420
ISBN-13	978-1-138-28542-2 / 9781138285422
Zustand	Neuware