Fashion in Film

by Munich, Adrienne

• ISBN13: 9780253222992
• ISBN10: 0253222990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-28
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Adrienne Munich is Professor of English, Cultural Studies, and Art at Stony Brook University. She has published articles about fashion and adornment in films from Tootsie to Titantic to Place Vendme. She is author of Andromeda's Chains and Queen Victoria's Secrets, co-editor of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell and Amy Lowell: American Modern, and co-editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Fashion Shows	p. 1
Fashioning Film	p. 14
Costume Design, or, What Is Fashion in Film?	p. 17
What to Wear in a Vampire Film	p. 40
Noir Fashion and Noir as Fashion	p. 54
Surface, Fabric, Weave: The Fashioned World of Wong Kar-wai	p. 83
Filming Fashion	p. 106
The Walkies: Early French Fashion Shows as a Cinema of Attractions	p. 110
Wanting to Wear Seeing: Gilbert Adrian at MGM	p. 135
ôIt will be a magnificent obsessionö: Femininity, Desire, and the New Look in 1950s Hollywood Melodrama	p. 160
Adornment in the Afterlife of Victorian Fashion	p. 181
Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette: Costumes, Girl Power, and Feminism	p. 203
Fashioning National Identities	p. 232
Slave to Fashion: Maculinity, Suits, and the Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema	p. 236
The Stars and Stripes in Fashion Films	p. 260
Does Dress Tell the Nation's Story? Fashion, History, and Nation in the Films of Fassbinder	p. 281
Subversive Habits: Minority Women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil Se	p. 301
Epilogue: After Fashion	p. 320
Un-Fashionable Age: Clothing and Unclothing the Older Woman's Body on Screen	p. 322
List of Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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