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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This abundantly illustrated collection reveals that fashion in conjunction with film must be understood in a different way from fashion tout simple. Zusammenfassung Off the screen and onto the runway! Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...