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Undressing Cinema: Clothing and identity in the movies

Undressing Cinema: Clothing and identity in the movies Hardback - 1997

by Stella Bruzzi

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Hardback. New. Clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities. This book is an innovative examination of the importance of clothes in film and makes new links between cinema, fashion, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis.
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  • Title Undressing Cinema: Clothing and identity in the movies
  • Author Stella Bruzzi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1997-11-06
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780415139564
  • ISBN 9780415139564 / 0415139562
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.41 x 0.83 in (24.18 x 16.28 x 2.11 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fashion in motion pictures, Costume - Symbolic aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97007260
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

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