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9781844570683

Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity

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    1844570681

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-06-26
  • Publisher: British Film Inst

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Summary

This scholarly and readable volume redresses that balance, offering close analyses of the detail and significance of male and female star style in Hollywood. European, Asian and Latin American contexts.

Author Biography

Dr Rachel Moseley is lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. The author of Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance (Manchester University Press, 2001), she has published widely on popular film and television and is currently working on two new volumes. The first is a critical history of television programming for teenagers in Britain, and the second is a study of the television drama of Phil Redmond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1(8)
Rachel Moseley
Part One: Hollywood 9(76)
1. Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette: Which Body Too Much?
11(16)
Jane Marie Gaines and Charlotte Cornelia Herzog
2. Storytelling: Marlene Dietrich's Face and John Frederics' Hats
27(12)
Drake Stutesman
3. Gregory Peck: Anti-Fashion Icon
39(11)
Stella Bruzzi
4. Pillow Talk's Repackaging of Doris Day: 'Under all those dirndls...'
50(12)
Tamar Jeffers
5. Brad Pitt and George Clooney, the Rough and the Smooth: Male Costuming in Contemporary Hollywood
62(13)
Pamela Church Gibson
6. Samuel L. Jackson: Beyond the Post-Soul Male
75(12)
Russell White
Part Two: Asia, Latin America and Europe 85(87)
7. Sulochana: Clothes, Stardom and Gender in Early Indian Cinema
87(11)
Kaushik Bhaumik
8. The Hollywood Movie Star and the Mexican Chica Moderna
98(11)
Joanne Hershfield
9. Dress, Class and Audrey Hepburn: The Significance of the Cinderella Story
109(12)
Rachel Moseley
10. Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall
121(13)
Christine Geraghty
11. Hot Couture: Brigitte Bardot's Fashion Revolution
134(13)
Ginette Vincendeau
12. 'Sean Connery Is James Bond': Re-Fashioning British Masculinity in the 1960's
147(13)
Pam Cook and Claire Hines
13. Luisina Brando's Costuming in Maria Luisa Bemberg's Films: An Excessive Femininity
160(12)
Denise Miller
Bibliography 172(9)
Index 181

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