Undressing Cinema: Clothing and identity in the movies

by Stella Bruzzi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415139570
• ISBN13: 9780415139571
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"