Abstract
This chapter analyses the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953). In this spectacle of sensory plenitude, which features a pair of translucent platform heels, gives objective form to the film’s overarching games of revelation. The shoes worn by Marilyn Monroe, with their versatility in function and meaning, offer a means of thinking through the shifting parameters not only of the culture of visibility in Golden-Age Hollywood, but also of the various screens on which they are viewed today
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Shoe Reels |
| Subtitle of host publication | The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film |
| Editors | Elizabeth Ezra, Catherine Wheatley |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Pages | 94-102 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474495332 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781474451406 |
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| Publication status | Published - 23 Sept 2021 |