Footnotes: On ShoesShari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss Scholars of literature and culture from the US and Britain investigate why western culture has acquired a fascination with footwear. They explore the representation of shoes in popular entertainment, advertising, fashion, museums, and scholarly accounts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
The Ends of Fashion or Learning to Theorize with Shoes | 17 |
The Shoe in Art the Shoe as Art | 41 |
Cinema Gender and Footwear | 58 |
Mens Footwear and Modernity | 116 |
Tacones and Symbolic Ethnicity | 135 |
Lesbian Fetishism in Daphne Du Mauriers Rebecca | 156 |
Brogans | 179 |
Empty Shoes | 197 |
Red Shoes and Bloody Stumps | 233 |
Illusion and the Naked Foot | 251 |
The Modern Foot | 272 |
Big Feets or How Cinderellas Glass Slippers Got Smashed | 291 |
The Red Shoes | 305 |
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