All For Beauty: Makeup And Hairdressing In Hollywood's Studio Era (Techniques Of The Moving Image)

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.

• | Author: Adrienne L. McLean
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 326 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Design
• | ISBN-10: 0813563585
• | ISBN-13: 9780813563589