{"product_id":"mcqueen-or-lee-and-beauty-9781474264464","title":"McQueen: or Lee and Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons, like weapons against poor people, because even is you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But I can make things that are weapons against day to day stuff.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA girl has watched McQueen's Mayfair house for eleven consecutive days. Tonight, she climbs down from her watching tree and breaks into his house, to steal a dress, to become someone special. He catches her, but, instead of calling the police, they embark together on a journey through London and into his heart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe play captures the fairy-story landscape of McQueen's mind - the landscape seen in his immortal shows - where, with a dress, an urchin can become an Amazon and where beauty might just help us survive the night. \u003ci\u003eMcQueen \u003c\/i\u003eis a journey into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of Alexander McQueen, fashion's greatest contemporary artist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Phillips's play received its world premiere at St James Theatre, London, on 12 May 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474264464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillips, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeidegger's \u003c\/i\u003eVolk\u003ci\u003e: Between National Socialism and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eSternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), the editor \u003ci\u003eof Cinematic Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and co-editor, with John Severn, of \u003ci\u003eBarrie Kosky's Transnational Theatres \u003c\/i\u003e(2021).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":66875182481523,"sku":"9781474264464","price":25.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9dac7ff4-e70a-4cf4-aa2e-e987c79dd47c.jpg?v=1792080728","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mcqueen-or-lee-and-beauty-9781474264464","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}