Costume and Cinema - Dress Codes in Popular Film (Short Cuts) - Softcover

Street, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903364183 ISBN 13: 9781903364185

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2002

Synopsis

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-scène, 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah Street is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama, University of Bristol, UK. She has written widely on British cinema and her publications include British National Cinema and British Cinema in Documents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1903364183
• ISBN 13: 9781903364185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144