I have a
migraine. I have 5 essays due very soon. On top of
this I don't know what my living situation is going to be next year yet.
Now that I've unloaded my shit, I'm happy to note I atleast have a good
beginning to one of my
essays:
Most periods of social change can first be glimpsed in popular
culture. However, it is often that these moments are not recognized
until after the fact. In 1962 there was one of those moments in the
first James Bond film Dr. No. About halfway through the film, Sean
Connery as James Bond is on a Caribbean Island and is startled awake by
singing. He wonders onto the beach and witnesses an impressive sight:
Like early man coming out of the ocean, we, through Connery’s
eyes see a new type of woman. In the embodiment of Ursla Andress,
we see the new woman of the coming “sexual revolution”. She is sleek and
athletic, armed with a knife, not with a man.
Andress is the opposite of the typical fifties movie bombshell.
That type of woman was soft; fuller figured with large breasts that made
her almost unnaturally proportioned and ready to collapse at any moment.
More later and I promise it will be interesting.