>On 5/2/96, Kate Bowles wrote:
>
>>Putting together a first year subject component on the screen production of
>>gender, I am looking for movies which deal with masculinity and
>>consumerism, particularly images of men shopping.
>>
>>It strikes me that we most often see a man "shopping" for clothes when he
>>is sponsoring a female shopper, e.g. _Pretty Woman_.  It's his credit card,
>>but she's doing the shopping.  Is this because shopping for clothes,
>>especially the trying-on of roles which it involves, creates the impression
>>of both vanity and anxiety, and this sits uneasily with the masculine
>>screen image?  Still?  This seems like an unsatisfactory conclusion.
>>
 
In an interesting twist on this, in Paul Mazursky's DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY
HILLS, Richard Dreyfuss takes Nick Nolte shopping (on his credit card) on
Rodeo Drive.
 
Ann Shepphird
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