Fashion in film /

Fashion in film / edited by Adrienne Munich - x, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - New directions in national cinemas . - New directions in national cinemas .

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index

Introduction : fashion shows / Adrienne Munich -- Fashioning film. Costume design, or, what is fashion in film? / Drake Stutesman -- What to wear in a vampire film / Mary Ann Caws -- Noir fashion and noir as fashion / Ula Lukszo -- Surface, fabric, weave : the fashioned world of Wong Kar-wai / Giuliana Bruno -- Filming fashion. The walkies : early French fashion shows as a cinema of attractions / Caroline Evans -- Wanting to wear seeing : Gilbert Adrian at MGM / Jane M. Gaines -- "It will be a magnificent obsession" : femininity, desire, and the New Look in 1950s Hollywood -- Melodrama / Stella Bruzzi -- Adornment in the afterlife of Victorian fashion / Maura Spiegel -- Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette : costumes, girl power, and feminism / Diana Diamond -- Fashioning national identities. Slave to fashion : maculinity, suits, and the Maciste films of Italian silent cinema / Jacqueline Reich -- The stars and stripes in fashion films / Adrienne Munich -- Does dress tell the nation's story? fashion, history, and nation in the films of Fassbinder / Kristin Hole -- Subversive habits : minority women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil Se / Sarah Berry -- Epilogue : after fashion. Un-fashionable age: clothing and unclothing the older woman's body on screen / E. Ann Kaplan

The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoinette looks, Fashion in Film uncovers the way in which the alliance of these two powerhouse industries use myriad cultural influences -- shaping narrative, national identity, and all points in between. Contributor essays address international films from early cinema to the present, drawing on the classic and the innovative. This abundantly illustrated collection reveals that fashion in conjunction with film must be understood in a different way from fashion tout simple

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Fashion in motion pictures
Costume--Symbolic aspects
National characteristics in motion pictures
Performing Arts.
Fashion & textiles
Films, cinema
Film history, theory & criticism