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A man asks himself about the image of women who are offered for his gaze. A documentary about the image of women in fashion, film, and life.

Taking advantage of his wife's temporary leave, Anton and his female friends are having fun. In the midst of all the revelry, he receives a telegram that she is to return this morning. General turmoil ensues. Anton sees off his visitors and tries to reestablish order, but suddenly notices with horror one of the ladies had forgotten her corset...

During the Joseon Dynasty, hair that was black and rich, like mud, was a prerequisite for a beauty, while the hair of a woman who was short and stiff was described as negative and ugly. In 1920, the new woman was called Modan (毛斷). Short hair had a strong meaning for women to challenge the established system. Now in 2019, women also cut their hair. It is a movement that rejects the social definition of “feminine”, escaping “Corset” movement.

RED NIGHT LEGEND "Giant Corset Festival" was a concert held on March 1, 2014, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. BABYMETAL became the youngest band to perform at the venue. Both concerts followed shortly after the release of their debut studio album BABYMETAL, on February 26, 2014, with the album and the shows having been announced at the LEGEND "1997" concert. Both shows featured the full support of a live metal band called the KAMI BAND. For RED NIGHT, fans were required to wear corsets around their necks, reminiscent of their first solo show, the Corset Festival at Meguro Rokumeikan.

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Alex Borstein performs a music-infused stand-up special from The Wolford Theatre.

The History Channel explores the stories behind the many hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men and secretly enlisted to fight in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.

Christophe, an 11-year-old farm boy neglected by his father, is so bored that he starts lean­ing his head, to the point of falling. He falls everywhere, all the time. Far from attracting his father’s attention, he triggers his anger… and harvests an orthopedic corset. An instrument of torture for a child with so much energy, and all this to prevent him from leaning. Too bad, if he does not lean, it is the world that will lean! Christophe then discovers a superpower of imagination: that of tipping over the horizon, and sending everything waltzing …

"A raw, definitive look into the passion, humor and talent of Rasputina. Experience the rare and never before seen footage through the artful lens of one woman filmographer showcasing the honesty, hard work and sincere spirit of life on the road. Shot by Dawn Miceli during Rasputina's 2009 West Coast tour, this unique documentary includes footage from back stage dressing rooms to front row recitals. Under The Corset is a truly intimate look into the music and mind of Melora Creager."

Sophie, who boasts the most perfect figure in the world, attracts the attention of every man in town when she arrives in Snakeville to demonstrate corsets.

After three months of careful preparation, it's finally the night to carry out their mission. Marcy and Odi ready themselves to attend the 18th century ball of an overtly rich prison owner. If riding the high stakes of disabling his plans were not enough, their unprofessional feelings for each other start to unveil at the non-promise of tomorrow. Through the course of their last conversations before the ball, they also reveal their self appointed missions that showcase opposite values. What happens when longing comes up against morals?

The scene opens with a salesman displaying corsets to the buyer of a country store. He calls in a female model and tries a corset on her. While the buyer is looking at the figure, the salesman removes the head and arms and finally shows that instead of legs, she has a wire frame. This is one of the most effective trick pictures in our list.

Several young women stand on a pedestal and remove one garment at a time until there is a large pile of clothing beside them.

A short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets. This film from artist-activist Liz Crow draws on Kahlo’s own words and characteristically bold painting style, refuting the picture of Kahlo’s life as one of tragedy and suffering.

A corset maker -- for those of you who don't know what that it, it was a tight of highly reinforced girdle which gave the wearer an 'hourglass' figure -- has her model come in and wear one of her wears. The well-dressed customers enter and examine the corset on a mannequin.

Antigone, you perform the play with a plank of wood strapped/ to the back for Brecht, a door; I imagine how hard; the stricture, the only way through/ to leave/ to look straight at the thing/ it must have made you stiffer the way a high heel makes your leg longer or a corset makes your waist smaller

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

Early advertising film by Julius Pinschewer.

At the turn of the century Rose and ex-showbiz friend Molly get involved in selling steel. When they come unstuck with corsets they embark on the even more hazardous project of selling barbed wire to highly suspicious Texas cowboys.

For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.

An engineer has discovered a new special alloy for the construction of submarines and is about to launch it on the world market. To force him to give up the formula, his opponents kidnap his son.

A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and is enlisted in a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family.

When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help: her estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Their reunion is fleeting as they are soon tracked down on the island by crime boss Donnie and his lieutenant Bobo. As Ashley, Sarah, and Matt become entangled in an increasingly dangerous web, Ashley quickly learns her father had a secret past that she knew nothing about and that there is more to her father than meets the eye.

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The President hates bears because a big bear tried to kill his father. After declaring war on all bears, Air Force One is hijacked by bearrorists.

When the new girl in town tries out for her high school's cheerleading team, she unwittingly humiliates the most popular girl in school, leading to deadly consequences.

The cast of Radio Deejay reinterprets "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Police Commissioner Verrazzano (Luc Merenda) is visited by charming Giulia Medici (Janet Agren) who claims that her brother, banker Valter Medici didn't commit suicide but was murdered. The investigation leads Verrazzano to dark secrets of loan sharks.

Juan Diego Florez stars in the only available DVD version of Zelmira, filmed at the celebrated Rossini Festival in the composer s home town of Pesaro. The final opera Rossini wrote for Naples is a dramatic and musical tour de force and a magnificent showcase for the bel canto superstar of our time. Recorded in high definition at the 2009 Festival, Giorgio Barberio Corsettis production places the classical tale, set during the Trojan Wars, in modern times and modern dress Joining Juan Diego Florez are a major international cast, described as near miraculous by Opera Today and led by American mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich in the virtuosic title role But the evening remained another distinguished triumph for Juan Diego Florez as Prince Ilo, whose arrival in his homeland, to rescue Zelmira, was marked by a dazzling tenorial display which evoked a nearly twenty-minute ovation

A French adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's play "The Prince of Homburg", staged by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti.

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