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Author: Paul Verhoeven
Publisher: Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557042675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are portfolios by four photographers on the world of Las Vegas sex, glamour and spectacle shot during the production of the controversial movie Showgirls. In addition, the director's essay illuminates their visual style while giving insights into his own moviemaking techniques.
Author: Adam Nayman
Publisher: Pop Classics
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781770414402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat's celebrated as the "worst movie ever," film writer Adam Nayman explores the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film that won the Razzie and perhaps ended its star's career. He argues that Showgirls is not so bad it's good, it's so good it's mistaken for bad.
Author: Nicola Harrison
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1250200164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicola Harrison's The Show Girl gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star. "Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls will drink this up." --Booklist It's 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer, it takes every bit of perseverance to finally make it on stage. And once she does, all the glamour and excitement is everything she imagined and more—even worth all the sacrifices she has had to make along the way. Then she meets Archie Carmichael. Handsome, wealthy—the only man she's ever met who seems to accept her modern ways—her independent nature and passion for success. But once she accepts his proposal of marriage he starts to change his tune, and Olive must decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves.
Author: Andrea Stuart
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the showgirl which presents her as a cutural icon and role model for both men and women. It explores the lives and representations of showgirls through chapters on figures such as Dietrich, Colette and Madonna and the modern showgirls.
Author: Lisa Gioia-Acres
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0738596531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle girls all over the world may hope to grow up to become a princess, but few ever realize the dream. For those who grow up to become showgirls, they go far beyond, becoming goddess-like objects of men's desire and the epitome of feminine beauty, elegance, and class. As soon as resort casinos began to dot the dusty Las Vegas landscape, major stars, extravagant show productions, and beautiful women helped promote the city to become the ultimate adult playground. In the early 1950s, when women began to dance and parade on the stages of Las Vegas, the showgirl persona evolved from the seductive burlesque-style performance art to the elegant productions modeled after those staged in France, with women dripping in furs and feathers, or in nothing more than a G-string and rhinestones. The over-the-top Las Vegas productions may have faded into obscurity, leaving but one show, Bally's Jubilee, as the longest running showgirl show on the Las Vegas Strip, but the iconic showgirl will forever represent Las Vegas in all of its glitz and glory.
Author: Alison J. Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1351977709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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.
Author: J. R. Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-19
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHey darlin'... We've cashed the check and are showing you what you want to see in this brand-new activity and coloring book dedicated to film's single greatest clusterf*ck: SHOWGIRLS. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this masterpiece with this paperback homage. Design your own nails, chip your tooth on a Quaalude-induced word search, and thrust it through a maze to get Nomi from showing her t*ts at Cheetahs to being a showgirl on the stage at the Stardust. What're you waiting for, darlin'? Finish that doggy chow, and order your copy today. Features: -"Oddly-specific" activity pages that even Nomi Malone could complete -Over a dozen pages to put "a little more orange" (or whatever colors you like) on some of the most iconic Showgirls scenes -Nomi Malone, Cristal Connors... Zack, Molly, Henri... all your favorite delinquents! -Bonus: Design your own Crave Club flyer for James and Hope's terrible dance
Author: Melissa Hardie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0253068177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.
Author: Peter Filichia
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1250018447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Wait..Gypsy didn't win the Tony for Best Musical?" That's a question that gets asked over and over again, every time a new Rose takes to the runway in the Broadway classic "Gypsy". In "Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks", the popular syndicated theatre critic Peter Filichia chronicles the history of the American musical by looking at those shows that did not win the Tony Award for Best Musical. It happens every spring: The American Theatre Wing bestows its annual awards. Only those shows that have reached Broadway are nominated and while all Tony Awards are created equal in height, width and depth, the universally acknowledged biggest prize is the Best Musical Tony. The envelope is opened. The winner is announced and, then, the screeching begins. "Oh no! They gave it to that?" Did the best musical always win the Best Musical prize? Were there other factors that kept a more deserving show from copping the prize? Peter Filichia answers all these questions and more in "Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks" as he looks at many of the 153 previous Best Musical Nominees that didn't win the big prize. What were the biggest omissions? "Gypsy" had the distinct displeasure of not being either the first or second choice of the committee. In 1959 when Ethel Merman and a variety of strippers took the stage, the Tony for Best Musical was a tie between "The Sound of Music" and "Fiorello". In 1971, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" and its ghostly showgirls lost to a "groovy" re-tuning of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" that hasn't passed the test of time. And, in 1957, "West Side Story", its Jets and Sharks, were bested by the fine people of River City Iowa singing their Americana hearts out in "The Music Man". If you love Broadway, scratch your head on Tony Award night and still can't figure out how a show you loathed won the Tony for Best Musical, you will love riding through the years with Peter Filichia, one of America's most respected and popular theatre critics.
Author: Becki Ross
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-07-25
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 1442697229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize.
