Stella Bruzzi

Undressing Cinema

Clothing and identity in the movies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using case studies drawn from contemporary popular cinema to reassess ideas about costume and fashion in cinema, Bruzzi explores how clothes are key elements in the construction of cinematic identities and proposes new and dynamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780415139571
• ISBN-10: 0415139570
• Artikelnr.: 22117907

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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