The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with
bad hair, ill-fitting outdated clothing, and thick glasses is
changed into an almost unrecognizable glamour girl. Makeover scenes
such as these are examined beginning with 1942's Now, Voyager. The
study examines whether the film makeover is voluntary or
involuntary, whether it is always successful, how much screen time
it takes up, where in the narrative structure it falls, and how the
scene is actually filmed. Films with a Pygmalion theme, such as My
Fair Lady, Vertigo, and Shampoo, are examined in terms of gender
relations: whether the man is content with his creation and what
sort of woman is the ideal. Some films' publicity capitalizes on a
glamorous star's choice to play an unattractive character, as
discussed in a chapter examining stars like Bette Davis, Meryl
Streep, and Cameron Diaz. Topics also include folk literature's
Cinderella tale, men as the inspiration for makeovers in teen
flicks films like Clueless, She's All That, and Me, Natalie, and
class repositioning in such movies as Working Girl, Pretty Woman,
and Grease. Photographs are presented in a before/after format,
showing the change in the madeover character.
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