The Dressing Room

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.

DESIRÉE J. GARCIA is an associate professor in the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Department at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire. She is the author of The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and The Movie Musical (Rutgers University Press, 2021).