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Fashion transgressions and crimes of style: the image of the female fashion journalist

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Title	Fashion transgressions and crimes of style: the image of the female fashion journalist
Author	Sotoodeh, Sarah Christie
Author email	sotoodeh@usc.edu;sarahsotoodeh@gmail.com
Degree	Master of Arts
Document type	Thesis
Degree program	Journalism (Broadcast Journalism)
School	Annenberg School for Communication
Date defended/completed	2012-05-01
Date submitted	2012-04-26
Date approved	2012-04-27
Restricted until	2012-04-27
Date published	2012-04-27
Advisor (committee chair)	Saltzman, Joe
Advisor (committee member)	Page, Tim Birman, Dan
Abstract	This work examines the image of female fashion journalists in three series of novels by Ellen Byerrum, Sam Baker, and Eleanor Hyde. Lacey Smithsonian is the main character in the “Crimes of Fashion” seven-novel series by Ellen Byerrum and two films, Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover, based on two of the novels. The two films will be compared and contrasted to the novels that inspired the films. Smithsonian will be compared to female journalists and fashion journalists, including Annie Anderson from the Sam Baker two-novel series and Lydia Miller, an ex-runway model turned fashion writer in the Eleanor Hyde two-novel series. ❧ Lacey Smithsonian hates being the fashion reporter, even though it brings her fame and success at the paper. Even though Lacey loves to dress in clothes from the 1940s, she dislikes being forced to write about fashion instead a “serious” beat. Lacey is a strong-willed female, but her role as a sob sister and victim is evident in the series. Crimes of fashion occur on her beat and, as she investigates, she ends up becoming part of the story. ❧ Annie Anderson must fight her inner demons as she acclimates to the new direction her career has taken as the fashion features editor for one of the top British fashion magazines, Handbag. Her previous job was at The London Post as the chief investigative reporter. She decided she needed a break from “serious” journalism and thus began her job in fashion. She does not fit in with the magazine, yet she is very successful and ends up landing coveted exclusive interviews that land her cover stories. Her investigative skills get her in trouble as she becomes involved in solving disappearances and murders that soon threaten her life. ❧ Lydia Miller is a former runway model who doesn’t share the same passion for journalism as Smithsonian and Anderson. The writer doesn’t care for the craft but only works for the fashion magazine Gazelle to pay the bills. She, too, stumbles onto murders and must solve the cases before she becomes history.
Keyword	female; fashion; journalist
Language	English
Part of collection	University of Southern California dissertations and theses
Publisher (of the original version)	University of Southern California
Place of publication (of the original version)	Los Angeles, California
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Provenance	Electronically uploaded by the author
Type	texts
Legacy record ID	usctheses-m
Rights	Sotoodeh, Sarah Christie
Access conditions	The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given.
Repository name	University of Southern California Digital Library
Repository address	USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA
Repository email	cisadmin@usc.edu
Archival file	uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-SotoodehSa-672.pdf