Description
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.
About the Author
ADRIENNE L. McLEAN is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom, Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s, and Cinematic Canines: Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film (all by Rutgers University Press).
Reviews
"A fascinating book taking a broad historical approach to three interrelated Hollywood crafts-costume, hair, and makeup-linking them to important economic, cultural, and technological changes in the film industry and American society." -- Lucy Fischer * University of Pittsburgh *
Book Information
ISBN 9780813571515
Author Adrienne L. McLean
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm