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Author Street, Sarah.

Title Costume and cinema : dress codes in popular film / Sarah Street
Published London : Wallflower, 2001

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Description 112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print
Series Short cuts ; 09
Short cuts (London, England) ; 09
Contents 1. titanic: dressing for disaster -- 2. the talented mr ripley: costuming identity -- 3. desperately seeking susan: textures of transformation -- 4. wonderland: the embodiment of 'the real' -- 5. the matrix: fashioning the future
Analysis COSTUMES
FASHION AND THE CINEMA
TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997)
MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999)
TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE (US, Anthony Minghella, 1999)
WONDERLAND (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 1999)
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985)
Notes Glossary: p.105-108
Bibliography: p.109-112
Presents an overview of the literature on film costume, together with a series of detailed case studies which highlight 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 films
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Costume design.
Motion pictures -- History.
Costume.
LC no. 19033641
ISBN 1903364183
Other Titles Dress codes in popular film