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Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and FilmA guide to creating and styling costume wigs. It contains the information you need to be a cut above, offering snippets on styling tools, hair types, wig making and measuring, coloring, cutting, and even creating beards and toupees. It helps you learn to work with wigs based on time periods specific to your production.
Full description- Publisher: Focal Press
- Published: 10 March 2010
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
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- Categories: Theatre Studies | Theatre Direction & Production | Theatre: Technical & Background Skills | Film Production: Technical & Background Skills
- ISBN 13: 9780240813202 ISBN 10: 0240813200
- Sales rank: 111,150
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At last a PROFESSIONAL book on Wig Making!
I have long searched for a professionally written, richly illustrated book on wigmaking conceived for someone who is seriously interested in the subject. I am happy to announce that THIS IS IT!. There is simply no comparison between this book and others that purport to deal with the same rare subject matter. While any book can contain useful information for absolute beginners, this is the first one that is structured like a proper course, starting with a glossary of terminology related to the art of wigmaking and its tools, continuing with detailed step by step lessons and how-to's in wig construction, offering fundamentals in styling and maintenance and closing with a very exhaustive description of the various tasks facing the professional wigmaker in the context of a film or theater production, and even advice on how to find work in one. As a bonus, you can register online to view a very useful video tutorials and more how-to guides.
The only less than ideal aspect of the book is its paperback format. A hardcover would have made it much more durable given that fact that it's a practical manual. Also, a companion DVD would have been wonderful. As the online tutorials show, video really does help understand many passages.
PRACTICAL ADVICE:
-If you are looking for a guide on period styles, please be aware that this is not it: the concern of the author is to teach the basics to realize any style using wigs (including, for once, the secret behind the incredible 1700's styles), but the scope of the book does not include a period by period how-to, which you can find elsewhere.
-If you are only marginally interested in the subject, and are just looking for tips on how to manage hair in your own amateur theater production, you may find this a little daunting. In that case you may want to opt for "Hair & Wigs for the Stage" by Rosemarie Swinfield, but there is no comparison with the wealth of information you find here, and unless you are an absolute beginner I would choose this book with no doubts.
In conclusion we owe a big THANK YOU to Miss Ruskai, Miss Lowery and Focal Press, for finally filling in a gaping hole in wig literature. by Daniele Pacini
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