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Fashion on the red carpet : a history of the Oscars, fashion and globalisation / Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén.
LIBRA PN1995.9.C56 L86 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lundén, Elizabeth Castaldo, author.
- Series:
- Film and fashions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Clothing.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Academy Awards (Motion pictures).
- Fashion--United States.
- Fashion.
- Clothing and dress.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Turn-of-the-century reconfigurations
- From fashionable society to celebrity culture
- The construction of a Hollywood elite
- Americanising fashion
- A parade of glamour
- The complexities of globalisation
- The red-carpet as the symbolic space of Hollywood royalty
- Fashion at the Academy Awards
- The book you are about to read
- 1. `When You Wish Upon A Star...'
- Dressing like (a) `somebody'
- Bodies of pecuniary emulation
- By women, for women
- Society women prefer Pond's
- Making sure they sleep on a Simmons
- Advertising goes west
- On how Hollywood infiltrated fashion expertise
- `9 out of 10 stars'
- The advertising rush
- Getting the red-carpet treatment
- Take-off
- 2. The Hollywood Designers' Reign
- Institutionalising prestige for the film industry as art and science
- Hollywood on the move
- Not any woman's club
- The Hollywood designers
- Putting Hollywood in the fashion market
- Hollywood as the new Paris
- Hollywood in Vogue
- The last Hollywood designer
- 3. From Private Gatherings To Public Spectacle
- A cavalcade of Academy Awards
- The Oscars and the American Century
- A new fashion capital for the American Century
- The Academy goes to war
- at the Chinese Theatre
- The red-carpet as the show within the show
- The bleachers
- Fandom and rituals of acceptance
- The red-carpet reporters and greeters
- On the radio
- The Armed Forces
- The red-carpet as a radio spectacle
- Hollywood's dusk is televisions dawn
- 4. Tracing The Academy Awards Ceremony's Footprint Into The Mediascape
- NBC and the inception of the Oscarcast
- The greatest show on Earth will be televised
- Accommodating the press
- Hollywood exodus
- The potential of international markets
- 5. Creating An International Fashion Show For The American Market
- Fashion's showtime
- First show coverage
- The emergence of the fashion consultant
- The emergence of the Academy Awards fashion pre-show
- The sponsor
- Lilt's 1960 aesthetics and the imagined Oscar audience
- Promotional synergies
- Oscar Night in Hollywood is brought to you by P&G
- An international fashion show free-for-all
- 6. Style Arbiters and the Genesis of Best- and Worst-Dressed Lists
- The meaning and power of expertise
- Style arbiters
- Simply the best
- The Fashion Academy
- The caretaker of the French list turns New York's fashion empress
- Who cares about the best dressed?
- The bad boy of fashion arbitrage
- Mr Blackwell's infamous list and the art of self-branding
- The legacy is everyone's
- 7. The Emergence Of Fashion Conglomerates Turns Couture Into Pret-A-Porter
- Cultural turmoil
- The beginning of the end
- Off with her head
- The anarchy of style
- Celanese deals
- The New Hollywood's view of old Hollywood glamour
- The New Hollywood takes over the Oscars
- Say yes to the (ready-to-wear) dress
- The official pre-shows
- 8. The Fashion Revolution
- A fashionable expansion
- The fashion coordinator
- King of Beverly Hills
- Out of the Rodeo and into Hollywood
- Return to the promised land
- Let the fashion games begin
- Unforgettable auctions
- A tale of fragrances and copycats
- The reign of the fashionistas
- A celebration of Oscar fashion
- Behind the dress
- Landing
- 9. Twilight Of The Idols
- The red-carpet: a space of spectacle, a space of reflection, a celebrity
- A space of protest
- #AskHerMore
- #MeToo and Time's Up
- Blurring the gender code
- The future of fashion on the red carpet
- Sustainability
- Heritage and the return of couture
- The eternal return of the same
- Awakening.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474461801
- 1474461808
- OCLC:
- 1255882099
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