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Undressing cinema:

clothing and identity in the movies
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Rotledge, 1997 - Performing Arts - 226 pages
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 case studies drawn from contemporary popular cinema to reassess established ideas about costume and fashion in cinema, and to challenge conventional interpretations of how masculinity and femininity are constructed through clothing. Her wide-ranging study encompasses:
* haute couture in film and the rise of the movie fashion designer, from Givenchy to Gaultier
* the eroticism of period costume in films such as The Piano and The Age of Innocence
* clothing the modern femme fatale in Single White Female, Disclosure and The Last Seduction
* generic male chic in Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, and Leon
* pride, costume and masculinity in `Blaxploitation' films, Boyz `N The Hood and New Jack City
* drag and gender confusion in cinema, from the unerotic cross-dressing of Mrs Doubtfire to the eroticised ambiguity of Orlando.

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User Review  - Vashti - Goodreads

Incredibly interesting and full of interesting psychological theories. I'll definitely be looking at movies in a different way from now on. Read full review

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User Review  - Greta - Goodreads

On the function of clothing in films. Interesting, though it deals with mostly modern films. Discusses costume film, haute couture, gangster, Blaxploitation, Femme Fatale, cross dressing, and androgyny Read full review

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TitleUndressing cinema: clothing and identity in the movies
AuthorStella Bruzzi
Editionillustrated
PublisherRotledge, 1997
ISBN0415139562, 9780415139564
Length226 pages
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Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  
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