beautiful and rebellious
by Jean-Pierre Putters
Publisher : Deep Red (June 2019)
Language : French
Number of pages : 190 pages
Before the struggle for contemporary parity, some rebels were already shouting: “No! “Actresses like Brigitte Bardot, Romy Schneider, Arletty, Marilyn Monroe, Béatrice Dalle, Joséphine Baker, Louise Brooks, Hedy Lamarr, Marlène Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and many others, asserted their rights in a resolutely misogynistic cinematographic universe. So many provocateurs, rebellious, eccentric, boyish, libertarian, even libertine, ready to face in turn the diktats of the producers, the anger of the leagues of virtue, the wrath of the critics, the heartbreaking rules of a retrograde Hays code, bourgeois precepts, ambient racism, the remonstrances of an ecclesiastical people yet just as "coated" as they are, and even the ingratitude of a deliberately conservative public.
Warriors in a hurry to check if by chance the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man does not also concern Women a little bit. When freedom rhymes with femininity...