Fabrications : costume and the female body /
edited by Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog.
- New York : Routledge, 1990.
- vii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.
- AFI film readers .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-294).
Contents: All the rage / Elizabeth Wilson -- Fame, flashdance, and fantasies of achievement / Angela McRobbie -- On the muscle / Laurie Schulze -- The female colossus / Serafina K. Bathrick -- The Carole Lombard in Macy's window / Charles Eckert -- Fig leaves in Hollywood / Jeanne Thomas Allen -- Powder puff promotion / Charlotte Herzog -- Handmaidens of the glamour culture / ElizabethNielsen -- Costume and narrative / Jane Gaines -- Designing women / Maureen Turim -- Masochism, masquerade, and the erotic metamorphoses of Marlene Dietrich / Gaylyn Studlar.
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Clothing and dress--History--United States--20th century. Body, Human--Social aspects. Feminism and the arts.