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Hollywood catwalk [electronic resource] : exploring costume and transformation in American film / Tamar Jeffers McDonald.

by McDonald, Tamar Jeffers.

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London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.

Costume -- United States.

Costume -- United States -- Psychological aspects.

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International library of cultural studies ; 12.

1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations.

The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence.

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