| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 4 sec.) ; 314464740 bytes |
| Summary |
Bikini Revolution tells a fun and light-hearted story of the bikini: a story that began in July 1946 in Paris. The French are pretty good at revolutions, but this time, they stormed the swimming pool instead of the Bastille. However, across the Atlantic, where the prim American version of the two-piece was still covering New World navels, people were having difficulties coming to terms with the revolution instigated by fashion designer Louis Reard who called his daring new two-piece swimsuit "the bikini" because it sounded exotic. All beginnings are difficult and the bikini had to wrestle with moral opposition, even in sunny Spain and France where many towns decided to ban it. Religion is strictly opposed to nudity and the Vatican was outraged by this revealing swimsuit. In the mid 60s, the worldwide monokini scandal showed once again that the bikini had found its way into mainstream culture. Today, Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the bikini's "Promised Land" and if you think of Brazilian women, you think of the bikini. While Brazil markets its bikini image, the Bikinians are trying to market their island as a diver's paradise. Bikini, "the land of many coconuts", is much more than just beachwear. (From Switzerland in English, Portuguese and French, English subtitles) (Documentary) PG CC WS |
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Broadcast 2010-06-26 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Bikinians.
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Bikinis.
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Breast -- Surgery.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Brazil.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Knechtel, Albert, director
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