WYKE, MDC;
Montserrat, D;
(2011)
Glamour girls: Cleomania in mass culture.
In: Miles, Margaret M, (ed.)
Cleopatra: A sphinx revisited.
(pp. 172-194).
University of California Press
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Abstract
While Elizabeth Taylor was in Rome shooting the spectacular Hollywood epicCleopatra, women’s magazines began to advise their readers how to create “a new Egyptian look” whose models were Nefertiti and Cleopatra, Egypt’s two most iconic queens.¹ An article inLookmagazine for 27 February 1962 predicted: Superimpose two such famous glamour girls as Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra, and you are in for a beauty boom. In her role as Egypt’s seductive queen, actress Taylor’s exotic eye makeup, diverse hair styles (devised with 30 wigs), magnificent jewels and gowns are bound to inspire a new Egyptian look every bit as...
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Glamour girls: Cleomania in mass culture |
| ISBN: | 0520243676 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780520243675 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnvmm |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Biography & Autobiography |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143383 |
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