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Hollywood Catwalk

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713272
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Catwalk written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence tell us, the viewers, about what we should be doing? Investigating these questions, this book examines a key but frequently overlooked aspect of film style: the costume. Across all the films discussed, costume and the body it covers becomes the crucial element in the transformation scene, exemplifying the 'before' and 'after' of the successful change. Exploring the fantasies of transcendence and transformation sold through these films and exemplified in the costumes, this book examines "Calamity Jane", "Midnight Cowboy", "Clueless", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "The Devil Wears Prada", and many other examples from both classic and contemporary Hollywood.

Hollywood Catwalk

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733923
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Catwalk written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence tell us, the viewers, about what we should be doing? Investigating these questions, this book examines a key but frequently overlooked aspect of film style: the costume. Across all the films discussed, costume and the body it covers becomes the crucial element in the transformation scene, exemplifying the 'before' and 'after' of the successful change. Exploring the fantasies of transcendence and transformation sold through these films and exemplified in the costumes, this book examines "Calamity Jane", "Midnight Cowboy", "Clueless", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "The Devil Wears Prada", and many other examples from both classic and contemporary Hollywood.

Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema

Author : Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319417991
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema written by Stephen Sharot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they were shaped by inequalities of gender and class in American society, and explains why they were especially popular from World War I through the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. In the vast majority of cross-class romance films the female is poor or from the working class, the male is wealthy or from the upper class, and the romance ends successfully in marriage or the promise of marriage.

Costume, Makeup, and Hair

Author : Adrienne L. McLean
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572975
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Costume, Makeup, and Hair written by Adrienne L. McLean and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movie buffs and film scholars alike often overlook the importance of makeup artists, hair stylists, and costumers. With precious few but notable exceptions, creative workers in these fields have received little public recognition, even when their artistry goes on to inspire worldwide fashion trends. From the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Costume, Makeup, and Hair charts the development of these three crafts in the American film industry from the 1890s to the present. Each chapter examines a different era in film history, revealing how the arts of cinematic costume, makeup, and hair, have continually adapted to new conditions, making the transitions from stage to screen, from monochrome to color, and from analog to digital. Together, the book’s contributors give us a remarkable glimpse into how these crafts foster creative collaboration and improvisation, often fashioning striking looks and ingenious effects out of limited materials. Costume, Makeup, and Hair not only considers these crafts in relation to a wide range of film genres, from sci-fi spectacles to period dramas, but also examines the role they have played in the larger marketplace for fashion and beauty products. Drawing on rare archival materials and lavish color illustrations, this volume provides readers with both a groundbreaking history of film industry labor and an appreciation of cinematic costume, makeup, and hairstyling as distinct art forms.

All for Beauty

Author : Adrienne L. McLean
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813563585
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book All for Beauty written by Adrienne L. McLean and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an industrial history that examines how and why makeup and hairdressing evolved as crafts in the studio era. Readers will never again watch Hollywood films without thinking about the roles of makeup and hairdressing in creating not just fictional characters but stars as emblems of an idealized and undeniably mesmerizing visual perfection.

'Grease Is the Word'

Author : Oliver Gruner
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785271113
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book 'Grease Is the Word' written by Oliver Gruner and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, ‘Grease Is the Word’ analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. From the stage show’s first appearance in 1971 to the Hollywood film of 1978 and twenty-first century responses to the ‘Grease Megamix’, ‘Grease Is the Word’ reflects on the musical’s impact and enduring legacy. With essays covering everything from the film’s production history, political representations and industrial impact to its stars and reception, the book shines a spotlight on one of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s biggest commercial successes. By adopting a range of perspectives and drawing on various visual, textual and archival sources, the contributors maintain a vibrant dialogue throughout, offering a timely reappraisal of a musical that continues to resonate with fans and commentators the world over.

Gene Tierney

Author : Will Scheibel
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081434822X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Gene Tierney written by Will Scheibel and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy. Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,and Laura,with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient—the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

Hollywood Stardom

Author : Paul McDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118321669
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Stardom written by Paul McDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the ‘star image’ is replaced with the ‘star brand’ Offers the first extensive analysis of stardom in the ‘post-studio’ era Combines genre, narrative, acting, and discourse analysis with aspects of marketing theory and the economic analysis of the film market Draws on an extensive body of research data not previously deployed in film scholarship A wide range of star examples are explored including George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Julia Roberts

Doris Day Confidential

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722794
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Doris Day Confidential written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 60s. Even now, many years after her final film and years since her last regular television appearances, the star's name retains currency: she is often invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt outmoded, with virginity firmly maintained until marriage. Although this assumption is widespread, close attention to the facts of Day's own life challenges it, and the majority of her film roles also prove otherwise, with Day most frequently portraying a woman of maturely sexual desires. Redressing a surprisingly meagre body of work on Doris Day, this book investigates why the rigid view of Day's maintained virginity should have arisen and become so fixed to the star, even now. Taking a twofold approach, Tamar Jeffers McDonald both closely examines Day's film roles and performances and explores material from other popular media for the source of the virgin myth. Day featured continuously in public discourse, and media stories were often devoted to her personal life: it was widely known that she had been married three times and had a son. Why then did the pejorative label, 'the-forty-year-old virgin', arise, and why has it stuck so tenaciously to Day until today? Investigating a range of sources in order to discover why this maturely sexual star has become indelibly associated with maintained virginity, Doris Day Confidential analyses in detail Day's characters and performances across her career. By focusing on contemporary popular culture contexts, using newspaper stories, articles from film, fan and lifestyle magazines, reviews and gossip, it charts the developments in Day's screen 'persona', highlighting the changing public perception of the star of Calamity Jane, Love Me Or Leave Me and Pillow Talk, as aided and abetted by the media.

A Companion to Film Comedy

Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119169550
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Film Comedy written by Andrew Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors

Love in Western Film and Television

Author : S. Matheson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137272945
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Love in Western Film and Television written by S. Matheson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.

'Guilty Pleasures'

Author : Alice Guilluy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135016304X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book 'Guilty Pleasures' written by Alice Guilluy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre's real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre's reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). Throughout the interviews, participants attempted to distance themselves from what they described as the “typical” rom-com viewer: the uneducated, gullible, overly emotional (American) woman. Guilluy calls this fantasy figure the “phantom spectatrix”. Guilluy complements this with a critical examination of the press reviews of the 20 biggest-grossing rom-coms at the worldwide box-office in order to contextualise the findings of her audience research.

Cinematic Style

Author : Jess Berry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350137634
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Style written by Jess Berry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cinema's silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on screen, stunning silhouettes and striking spaces still have the ability to dazzle to dramatic effect. This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age. With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel's costumes for Gloria Swanson and a Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy. Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory, Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.

Recollecting Collecting

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814348572
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Recollecting Collecting written by Lucy Fischer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollecting Collecting interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.

The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies

Author : Eugenia Paulicelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559437
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies written by Eugenia Paulicelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays interrogates disciplinary boundaries in fashion, gathering fashion studies research across disciplines and from around the globe. Fashion and clothing are part of material and visual culture, cultural memory, and heritage; they contribute to shaping the way people see themselves, interact, and consume. For each of the volume’s eight parts, scholars from across the world and a variety of disciplines offer analytical tools for further research. Never neglecting the interconnectedness of disciplines and domains, these original contributions survey specific topics and critically discuss the leading views in their areas. They include discursive and reflective pieces, as well as discussions of original empirical work, and contributors include established leaders in the field, rising stars, and new voices, including practioner and industry voices. This is a comprehensive overview of the field, ideal not only for undergraduate and postgraduate fashion studies students, but also for researchers and students in communication studies, the humanities, gender and critical race studies, social sciences, and fashion design and business.

The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking

Author : Nilgin Yusuf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474242383
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking written by Nilgin Yusuf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade fashion film's presence has become ubiquitous. From the retail environments where fashion film is projected onto windows and buildings, to the online arenas of fashion brands and labels through to art gallery installations, fashion communication is on the move. With examples from dozens of groundbreaking international films, including QR codes linking to the films online, The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking places fashion film in its broader industry, cultural and historical context. You'll also learn about the process of making fashion film, exploring how it works across multiple technologies, platforms and audiences. Interviews with filmmakers bring together a wealth of industry expertise on everything from storyboarding to finding an audience.

Wonderpedia / NeoPopRealism Archive 2010

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Publisher : NeoPopRealism PRESS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonderpedia / NeoPopRealism Archive 2010 written by and published by NeoPopRealism PRESS. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderpedia offers the books reviews, while NeoPopRealism Journal publishes news, views and other information additionally to the books reviews. These publications were founded by Nadia RUSS in 2007 and 2008, in new York City.