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Books

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. Fashion on the Red-Carpet: A History of the Oscars(r), Fashion and Globalisation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Find here

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Oscar Night in Hollywood: Fashioning the Red-Carpet from the Roosevelt Hotel to International Media.” (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2018). Find here

 

Peer-reviewed original articles

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Most Famous Costume Designer: Revisiting Edith Head’s Career Through a Contractual Lens.” Film History: An International Journal 34, no. 4 (2023): 30-58. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/900041  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Branding the Oscarcast:  The Public Relations Strategies that Established the Academy Awards Ceremony as a Successful Media Spectacle.” Historical Journal for Film, Radio and Television (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2022.2065079 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Exploring Fashion as Communication: The Search for a New Fashion History Against the Grain.” Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 18, no. 4 (2020): 249-258. DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2020.1854952

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich.” Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (September 2019): 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/1362704X.2019.1664527   

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth and Chiara Faggella. “Editorial Foreword to Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Fashion and the Moving Image.” Journal of Film, Fashion, and Consumption 8, no. 1 (April 2019): 3-8. Accessible at https://doi.org/10.1386/ffc.8.1.3_2 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. Introduction to “Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film and Media.” Networking Knowledge 11, no. 1 (May 2018): 1-6. Accessible at https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/527/336 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Barbarella’s Wardrobe: Exploring Jacques Fonteray’s Intergalactic Runway.” Film, Fashion, and Consumption 5(2), (December 2016): 185-211. https://doi.org/10.1386/ffc.5.2.185_1

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Lo Squalo, le strategie di marketing della universal e la costruzione della ‘Jawsmania’.” Cinergie 7 (March 2015), DOI: 10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6967 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “No Oscar for The Oscar? Behind Hollywood’s Walk of Greed.” Networking Knowledge 7, no. 4 (November 2014). Accessible at https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/352/182  

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Book Chapters

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Barbarella.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Vol. 3., edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. [Forthcoming]

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Classical Hollywood.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.010 .

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Postwar Hollywood.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth and Natalie Snoyman. “The Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.040.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Academy Award for Costume Design.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.065 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Costume/Fashion.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.078.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Product Placement.” In he Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.079.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Adrian.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI10.5040/9781474207874.134 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Theoni V. Aldredge.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207874.137.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Jacques Fonteray.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207874.245.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Edith Head.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, available open access at https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/film-and-television-costume-edith-head.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Orry Kelly.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Bob Mackie.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Costume Designer Biographies, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023, DOI: 10.5040/9781474207874.321

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Reporting Fashion: Fashioning Moving Images from Newsreels to Web Series.” In Insights on Fashion Journalism edited by Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reopen. London: Routledge, 2022. DOI: 10.4324/9781003035688-9

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Användningen av digitala arkiv inom humaniora.” In Humanistiska fakultetens jubileumsserie. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2019. https://www.hum.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.493457.1585644364!/menu/standard/file/7017%200012%20Bok%202%20Low_3.pdf

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Conference contributions

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Film Industry Project: Hollywood's Public Relations Efforts to Palliate to Postwar Crisis.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Boston, March 2024.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Spectacular Costumes: A Chronicle of the Costume Design Category at the Academy Awawrds.”  Critical Costume Conference, UCLA/David C. Copley Center, Los Angeles, March 2024/

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Movies and You: The Postwar Attempts to Keep Audiences Interested in Hollywood.” Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture - The Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS), May 25-27, 2023.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth.“Back to the Screen: Costume Research in the Digital Age.” NOS-HS III New Approaches, Methodologies, and Connections, Workshop organized by the National Library of Norway, May 5-6, 2023.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth.The Case for Awards Studies – Roundtable, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), April 2023.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. Media Archives Committe Workshop: Film Archives Workshop (Moderator), SCMS+, Online. February 20th, 2023

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “What was your Question? Deciphering How the Digital Humanities can Aid in the Study of Fashion.” Fabrics in Motion: Mediality and Materiality of Textiles in Early 20th Century Film and Media Culture- Department of Art History of the University of Cologne, May 2022. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth.  “Spectacular Costume Design: The Dialectics of Above-the-line Recognition and Below-the-line Labor.” SCMS Conference, March 2022.

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Beyond the Screen: The Perils of Researching Costume Design History.” Dressing the Media: Materials and Methods for Studying Screen Costume-IAMHIST, UK, September 2021. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Newsfilms as Historical Repositories of Fashion and Dress: A Methodological Initiative.” New Research in Dress History – Association of Dress historians, UK, August 2021. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Struggles of the Remote Scholar: Creating Opportunities for Archival Access Beyond Broad Digitization." Roundtable - SCMS Conference, 2021. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Pedagogies of Perspective: The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Moving Images and Gender in a Multicultural Classroom.” Stockholm University Teachers Conference, Kista, Stockholm, March 26, 2020. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “A Woman’s Job: Edith Head’s Transformation from School Teacher into Hollywood’s Most Iconic Costume Designer.”  Bridging Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics, Center for Media Celebrities, New York City, USA, 30 August - 1 September 2019.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “From Costume Designer to Fashion Expert: Edith Head as a Cultural Mediator of Style and Femininity in Postwar America.” Fashion and Costume Designers as Cultural Translators: Adapting Dress Across the Media, University College Cork, Ireland, 18-19 July 2019.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Most Famous Costume Designer: Constructing Edith Head’s Narrative from School Teacher to Hollywood Stardust.” Fashion, Costume and Visual Culture Conference in Roubaix, 9-11 July 2019.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Italy on the Red-Carpet: The Postwar Presence of Italian Designers at the Academy Awards.” Global Intersections and Artistic Interconnections: Italian Cinema and Media Across Time and Space, The American University in Rome, 14-15 June 2019.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Case of Lux Flakes: Hollywood Costume Designers as Fashion Experts and Product Endorsers under the Studio Era.” SCMS Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2018.  

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Cuerpos de Emulación Pecuniaria: Estrellas de Hollywood como elemento homogeneizador de la femineidad e identidad nacional en los Estados Unidos (1906-1930).” XIII Jornadas nacionales de Historia de las Mujeres y VII Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudios de Género, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2017. 

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The Classroom and the Archive: Teaching Film and Media History Using Digital and Physical Primary Materials.” SCMS Conference, Chicago, U.S.A., March 2017. 

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “The “Paco Rabanne Myth:” How Archival Research Can Help Us Deconstruct Celebrity Discourses.” Celebrity Culture and Power Between Culture and Politics Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2016. 

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Oscar Night in Hollywood: Edith Head and the Emergence of the Academy Awards’ Fashion Pre-Show.” 84th Anglo-American Conference of Fashion Historians, Senate House, London, UK, July 2015.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “JAWS: Creating the Myth of the Man-Eating Machine.” JAWS 40thAnniversary Symposium, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2015. 

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Because Fashion Matters: Studying the Intersections of Fashion, Film and Media.” Workshop - SCMS Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 2015.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Oscar Night in Hollywood: Edith Head and the Emergence of the Academy Awards' Fashion Pre-Show.” SCMS Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 2015.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Who Cares About the Best-Dressed? Mr. Blackwell’s Infamous List and the Art of Self-Branding.” Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, London, UK., June 2014.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Who Cares About the Best-Dressed? Mr. Blackwell’s Infamous List and the Art of Self-Branding.” PCA/ACA conference, Chicago, U.S.A., April 2014.  

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Dior Salve a la Reina: Cristina Fernández´s Fashionable Pleasures and her Constant War Against the Media.” Popular Culture and World Politics Conference PCWP VI, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2013. 

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Edited Special Issues for Journals

 

Popular science articles/presentations  

 

Presentations- broader audience

  • Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Barbarella: 50 Years of Space Age.” Lecture for the cycle Cinemateket Om Film, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.  

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Pre-Code Hollywood: The Final Sparks of the Insubordinate Screen.” Lecture for the cycle Cinemateket Om Film, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. 

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Comunicación responsable de la violencia de género.” Course given at the Círculo Marplatense de profesionales de la comunicación, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2016. 

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “¿A quién le importan los mejores vestidos? La lista infame de Mr. Blackwell y el lema toda prensa es buena prensa.” Presentation at the Círculo Marplatense de profesionales de la comunicación, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2014.  

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Oscar Red Carpet: From Local to Global (A Media History)” Seminar at the Media Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, U.S.A, 2014.  

  •  Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth. “Hollywood, moda y la alfombra roja: El surgimiento del consultor de moda en los Oscars.” Lecture given at UNTREFCyT Consumos culturales: creadores, poseedores y gestores (siglos XX y XXI) del IIAC, Universidad de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. 

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