Undressing Cinema - Clothing and identity in the movies

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Part 1 Dressing Up; Chapter 1 Cinema and Haute Couture; Chapter 2 Desire and the Costume Film; Part 2 Gender; Chapter 3 The Instabilities of the Franco-American Gangster; Chapter 4 The Screen’s Fashioning of Blackness; Chapter 5 Clothes, Power and the Modern Femme Fatale; Part 3 Beyond Gender; Chapter 6 The Comedy of Cross-Dressing; Chapter 7 The Erotic Strategies of Androgyny;

About the author

Stella Bruzzi is a lecturer in Film at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely in the areas of cinema and cultural studies and is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound

Summary

Clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities. This book is an innovative examination of the importance of clothes in film and makes new links between cinema, fashion, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: Stella Bruzzi, Bruzzi Stella
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780415139564
• ISBN: 978-0-415-13956-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 520 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Fashion & beauty industries, Fashion and textile design, Hospitality and service industries