Costume and Cinema

"Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film" presents an overview of the literature on film costume, together with a series of detailed case studies which highlight how costume is a key signifier in film texts. Sarah Street demonstrates how costume relates in fundamental ways to the study of film narrative and mise-en-scene, in some cases constituting a language of its own. In particular the book foregrounds the related issues of adaptation and embodiment in a variety of different genres and investigates this under-explored area through extensive analysis of popular films including "The Talented Mr Ripley, Desperately Seeking Susan," and "The Matrix."

ISBN	1903364183	Pages	120
ISBN13	9781903364185 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Wallflower Press	Weight (grammes)	186
Imprint	Wallflower Press	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Series title	Short Cuts
Publication date	13 Nov 2001	Height (mm)	200
Library of Congress	PN	Width (mm)	150
DEWEY	791.43026	Spine width (mm)	9
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly

	list of illustrations
	acknowledgements
	introduction: changing texts	1
1	titanic: dressing for disaster	13
2	the talented mr ripley: costuming identity	35
3	desperately seeking susan: textures of transformation	55
4	wonderland: the embodiment of 'the real'	73
5	the matrix: fashioning the future	85
	conclusion	101
	glossary
	bibliography

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