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Head On: Toula wants to dance
Ari (Alex Dimitriades) dances a males-only traditional Greek dance in the ‘Steki’, admired by the man he has gone there to meet, Sean (Julian Garner) and Sean’s date, Ariadne (Katerina Kotsonis). The...
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Beau Monde Hosiery: What Makes Miss Australia (1949)
This late 1940s colour cinema advertisment for women's stockings spends much of its running time focused on the qualities that a young woman needs to compete in the Miss Australia pageant. She must...
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Pussy Pumps Up
In Pussy Pumps Up, which can be viewed here in full, a feline female figure assumes more masculine characteristics. Summary by Dr Marian Quigley.
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Cheap Blonde
This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in a...
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Head On: I love you Betty
Ari (Alex Dimitriades), Joe (Damien Fotiou) and Joe’s fiancé Dina (Dona Kaskanis) are at the ‘Steki’, a Greek nightclub, when Betty (Elena Mandalis) arrives, looking distraught. Dina has been...
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