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Author:   Adrienne Munich ,  Drake Stutesman ,  Mary Ann Caws ,  Ula Lukszo
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780253222992

ISBN 10:   0253222990
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   28 June 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Fashion Shows / Adrienne Munich Part 1. Fashioning Film 1. Costume Design, or, What Is Fashion in Film? / Drake Stutesman 2. What to Wear in a Vampire Film / Mary Ann Caws 3. Noir Fashion and Noir as Fashion / Ula Lukszo 4. Surface, Fabric, Weave: The Fashioned World of Wong Kar-wai / Giuliana Bruno Part 2. Filming Fashion 5. The Walkies: Early French Fashion Shows as a Cinema of Attractions / Caroline Evans 6. Wanting to Wear Seeing: Gilbert Adrian at MGM / Jane M. Gaines 7. ""It will be a magnificent obsession"": Femininity, Desire, and the New Look in 1950s Hollywood Melodrama / Stella Bruzzi 8. Adornment in the Afterlife of Victorian Fashion / Maura Spiegel 9. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette: Costumes, Girl Power, and Feminism / Diana Diamond Part 3. Fashioning National Identities 10. Slave to Fashion: Maculinity, Suits, and the Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema / Jacqueline Reich 11. The Stars and Stripes in Fashion Films / Adrienne Munich 12. Does Dress Tell the Nation's Story? Fashion, History, and Nation in the Films of Fassbinder / Kristin Hole 13. Subversive Habits: Minority Women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil Se / Sarah Berry Part 4. Epilogue: After Fashion 14. Un-Fashionable Age: Clothing and Unclothing the Older Woman's Body on Screen / E. Ann Kaplan List of Contributors Index"

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""Munich has woven together a wonderful collection that lays bare not only the long standing interdependency between fashion and film, but also their interchangeability as sources of inspiration."" Louise Wallenberg, Director of the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University

Munich has woven together a wonderful collection that lays bare not only the long standing interdependency between fashion and film, but also their interchangeability as sources of inspiration. Louise Wallenberg, Director of the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University

Munich has woven together a wonderful collection that lays bare not only the long standing interdependency between fashion and film, but also their interchangeability as sources of inspiration. Louise Wallenberg, Director of the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University

Author Information

Adrienne Munich is Professor of English at Stony Brook University. She is author of Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and Queen Victoria's Secrets and co-editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.

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