[ecrea] New Issue of Film, Fashion & Consumption 5.2

Intellect is delighted to announce the release of /Film, Fashion & 
Consumption 5.2./

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For more information about this issue, clickhere 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3228/>or email 
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Articles in this issue include (partial list):

Postfeminist ‘Islamophobia’: The Middle East is so 1980s in Sex and the 
City: The Movie 2 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23082/>

*Authors: *Niall Richardson

Page Start: 165

This article analyses how /Sex and the City: The Movie 2/ (King, 2010) 
represents a binary between style that is coded as ‘vintage’ and, 
therefore, desirable, and style that is depicted as ‘dated’ and 
identified as bad taste. Although this has been a dominant motif in both 
the /Sex and the City/ series and first film (King, 2008), /Sex and the 
City: The Movie 2 /maps this distinction onto a West/Middle East binary. 
While everything Western (or, more precisely, everything NYC) is 
represented as stylish, the Middle East (and here it is Abu Dhabi that 
stands in for the Middle East) is depicted as dated and, the film 
suggests, trapped in the decade of the 1980s. /Sex and the City: The 
Movie 2/ develops many of the prejudices found in contemporary Western 
representations of the Middle East but articulates these through the 
motifs of fashion, consumerism and female sexuality. The article 
proposes that what is most offensive about /Sex and the City: The Movie 
2/ is that it conflates all the social, cultural, political and, most 
importantly, religious differences that exist between secular New York 
and Muslim Abu Dhabi and reduces all of these issues to a simple 
question of style and knowing consumerism.

Barbarella’s wardrobe: Exploring Jacques Fonteray’s intergalactic runway 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23083/>

*Authors: *Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén

Page Start: 185

Roger Vadim’s /Barbarella/ (1968) looms large in popular culture. 
Disguised under its sartorial splendour, the film’s narrative clearly 
negotiates social anxieties of the late 1960s. Similarly, the production 
design of the film incorporates contemporary elements from art, 
architecture and fashion. Arguably, these elements of style have played 
a key role in catapulting the film to its cult status. Franco-Spanish 
designer Paco Rabanne is frequently, albeit erroneously, credited for 
the creation of Jane Fonda’s on-screen parade of highly stylized 
costumes in the film. In fact, the man responsible for creating fashion 
in the diegetic year 40,000 was French costume designer Jacques 
Fonteray. Rabanne’s involvement in the film was limited to the creation 
of one costume. Based on archival research conducted in France and the 
United States of America, this article explores the role of Jacques 
Fonteray in the creation of the film’s costumes while simultaneously 
debunking the popular misconception regarding Paco Rabanne’s influence 
on the film’s overall aesthetics.

Ambivalence and the ‘American Dream’ on RuPaul’s Drag Race 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23086/>

*Authors: *Lori Hall-Araujo

Page Start: 233

This essay proposes that reality television show /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ 
(2009–present) simultaneously participates in a highly commercial medium 
while commenting on, critiquing and parodying consumer culture. Drag 
Race, like other drag or female impersonation competitions, engages 
dress and performance to parody a range of normative social categories 
such as gender and sexuality. Yet the show differs from other drag 
competitions like those featured in US documentaries /The Queen/ (Simon, 
1968) and /Paris is Burning/ (Livingston, 1990) in its ambivalent and 
lucrative engagement with consumer culture. In so doing, RuPaul’s Drag 
Race manages to parody the so-called American Dream while encouraging 
its pursuit.
In the spirit of /Film, Fashion & Consumption’s/ ‘Short Cuts’ section, 
which encourages short analyses of timely topics, this piece aims to 
spark discussion across disciplines.



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