Glamour: A History
Author:   Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199569786


Pages:   502
Publication Date:   16 July 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.537kg
ISBN:  

9780199569786


ISBN 10:   0199569789
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   16 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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: Cafe 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

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Covering over two centuries in an inevitably fast paced 400 pages, Stephen Gundle is persuasive. Hannah Greig, BBC History Magazine


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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.

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