There Can Be No Error, There Is No Excuse for a Mistake:

The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.

One speaker. One big idea. One good room. And a drink in your hand.

Tonight's rabbit hole · "There Can Be No Error, There Is No Excuse for a Mistake:"

With · Adrienne McLean

Where · Times Ten Cellars. Exact address lands in your confirmation.

Dr. Adrienne McLean examines the machinery behind Hollywood's studio-era image: the makeup artists and hairdressers who built and maintained the faces of stardom. Drawing from her book All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era, she treats physical transformation as a case study in manufactured identity, beauty standards, and the labor that sustained them. The talk centers on how studios controlled appearance, and what that control reveals about the ideals of the era.

This is a look at Hollywood's technical apparatus, not its mythology. McLean's focus is the work itself, the people who did it, and the system that demanded it.

Dr. Adrienne McLean is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era, Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema, and Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom.

How the night goes

Doors at 6:30 PM. grab a drink, claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Adrienne McLean takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.

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