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Author:
Finamore, Michelle Tolini.
Title:
Hollywood before glamour : fashion in American silent film / Michelle Tolini Finamore.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Fashion in motion pictures.
Silent films--United States--History and criticism.
Costume design--United States--History--20th century.
Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The working girl and the fashionable libertine: fashion and film in the Progressive Era -- World War I and "American" design in fashion and film -- "Goddesses in the machine": the fashion show on film -- Costumes and gowns: the rise of the specialist costume designer -- Peggy Hamilton: queen of filmland fashion -- Conclusion: the birth of Hollywood glamour.
ISBN:
0230389481
9780230389489
OCLC:
(OCoLC)819519350
LCCN:
2012048099
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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