Description: Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywood's "Golden Age" look like they just stepped out of a beauty parlor even if the story places them in a jungle, a hospital bed, or the ancient past? All for Beauty examines how and why makeup and hairdressing evolved as crafts designed partly to maintain the white flawlessness of men and women as a value in the studio era. The book pays particular attention to the labor force, exploring the power and influence of cosmetics inventor and manufacturer Max Factor and the Westmore dynasty of makeup artists but also the contributions of others, many of them women, whose names are far less known. At the end of the complex, exciting, and at times dismaying chronicle, it is likely that readers will never again watch Hollywood films without thinking about the roles of makeup and hairdressing in creating both fictional characters and stars as emblems of an idealized and undeniably mesmerizing visual perfection.
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EAN: 9781978831377
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Book Title: All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywo
Number of Pages: 326 Pages
Publication Name: All for Beauty : Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Fashion & Accessories, Gender Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Design, Performing Arts, Social Science
Author: Adrienne L. Mclean
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Techniques of the Moving Image Ser.
Format: Hardcover