Fashion on the Red Carpet: A History of the Oscars(r), Fashion and Globalisation

by Elizabeth Castaldo Lunden

Book Overview

The Academy Awards' red-carpet is the most prominent fashion show in media culture. Fashion on the Red Carpet investigates the historical liaison between Hollywood and fashion institutions, to describe how public relations campaigns and the media articulate fashion discourses around the Oscars. The power-shift towards television, the emergence of celebrity culture, the post-war reactivation of transatlantic trade, the growth of fashion journalism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474461816
• ISBN13: 9781474461818
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"