French eroticism and French culture
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Audrey Vernon at Canal plus Décalé strips nude
The work of Audrey Vernon as an announcer at French channel Canal plus Décalé is stupendous. She is the next big thing after Max Headroom. Above is the notorious announcement where she strips nude, sulkingly claiming that “nobody is watching anyway.” Phil Bloom[1] is her predecessor, this Dutch model showed her naked torso on national Dutch television in 1967.
Comparing Audrey Vernon to Max Headroom[3] reminds me of the eighties with kitsch such as the 1985 “Moments in Love“[4], both previous clips produced by Trevor Horn (more on him later). The eighties was also the time of Double Dutch[5] by McLaren (and btw, when was the similarly-styled “Freestyle“[6] by Bambaataa, a play on Kraftwerk‘s “Numbers“, produced?).
But I digress.
Back to French culture.
Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature (1975) by Marc Angenot
Above[6] is the elegant book cover to Marc Angenot‘s Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature, a 1975 work on paraliterature and popular fiction.
Excuse this hodgepodge of a post.
P. S. Click the footnoted numbers to watch.