Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Warwick U Television Studies

Glamour

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Gundle explains what glamour is, where it came from, and how it has developed over the last two centuries - right up to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780199569786
• ISBN-10: 0199569789
• Artikelnr.: 26125765

Autorenporträt

Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University, having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London and both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He has written widely about Italian and European culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his work focusing especially on the mass media, the cultural aspects of politics and fashion, and the impact of American modernity on European popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Walter Scott and the origins of glamour
2: 1. Building the shopping city in London and Paris
3: The birth of sex appeal
4: Wealth and style in the gilded age
5: Café society and the publicity phenomenon
6: The Hollywood star system
7: The Riviera touch
8: Glamour for the masses
9: Photography and the public image
10: Style, pastiche, and excess
11: Harlots and heiresses
Conclusion