248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp-suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is central to film. In Undressing Cinema , Stella Bruzzi explores how far from being mere accessories, clothes are key elements in the construction of cinematic identities, and she proposes new and dynamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis. Bruzzi uses... Read more
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;
Biography
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
Bruzzi challenges a number of truisms about the function of fashion in cinema; she argues convincingly that fashion cannot be described or analysed as a mere prop for narrative. This book does nothing less than encourage the reader to think and re-think the last several decades of film theory concerning what films mean and how they appeal to spectators. Bruzzi brings a wealth of knowledge about both fashion and film to her discussions, and the result is both entertaining and enlightening'. - Judith Mayne, Professor of French & Women's studies, Ohio State University
