Brigitte Bardot: The Making, Recycling, and Afterlife of an Icon
This chapter highlights the dynamics of the modern media icon by analyzing how Brigitte Bardot was a star made by the image (photography and film) and by reconstructing how her celebrity survived through the image. It discusses the emergence, evolution and impact of Bardot as a cultural icon and her continued relevance long after she stopped making films in 1973. In doing so, the chapter demonstrates how Bardot can be perceived as an icon in several senses – literally as the model of photographers, filmmakers and painters, culturally as creator and bearer of fashion and lifestyle that were widely imitated, and symbolically as the articulation of a sexualized rebellion against the conservative, patriarchal France of the time.
2012 ◽
Vol 6
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pp. 165-184
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2018 ◽
Vol 43
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pp. 86-93
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