Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
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- FIRST, LET us not confuse the pin-up girl with the pornographic or erotic imagery that dates from the dark backward and abysm. The pinup girl is a specific erotic phenomenon, both as to form and function.
André Bazin's 1946 essay "Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl," was first published as "Entomologie de la pin-up girl ", L'Écran français issue 77, September 1946. The essay is featured in What Is Cinema.
It starts thus with a definition and morphology of the pin-up girl:
- A wartime product created for the benefit of the American soldiers swarming to a long exile at the four corners of the world, the pin-up girl soon became an industrial product, subject to well-fixed norms and as stable in quality as peanut butter or chewing gum. Rapidly perfected, like the jeep, among those things specifically stipulated for modern American military sociology, she is a perfectly harmonized product of given racial, geographic, social and religious influences.
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