Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fashion Shows / Adrienne Munich
Part 1. Fashioning Film
1. Costume Design, or, What Is Fashion in Film? / Drake
Stutesman
2. What to Wear in a Vampire Film / Mary Ann Caws
3. Noir Fashion and Noir as Fashion / Ula Lukszo
4. Surface, Fabric, Weave: The Fashioned World of Wong Kar-wai /
Giuliana Bruno
Part 2. Filming Fashion
5. The Walkies: Early French Fashion Shows as a Cinema of
Attractions / Caroline Evans
6. Wanting to Wear Seeing: Gilbert Adrian at MGM / Jane M.
Gaines
7. "It will be a magnificent obsession": Femininity, Desire, and
the New Look in 1950s Hollywood Melodrama / Stella Bruzzi
8. Adornment in the Afterlife of Victorian Fashion / Maura
Spiegel
9. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette: Costumes, Girl Power, and
Feminism / Diana Diamond
Part 3. Fashioning National Identities
10. Slave to Fashion: Maculinity, Suits, and the Maciste Films of
Italian Silent Cinema / Jacqueline Reich
11. The Stars and Stripes in Fashion Films / Adrienne Munich
12. Does Dress Tell the Nation's Story? Fashion, History, and
Nation in the Films of Fassbinder / Kristin Hole
13. Subversive Habits: Minority Women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil
Se / Sarah Berry
Part 4. Epilogue: After Fashion
14. Un-Fashionable Age: Clothing and Unclothing the Older Woman's
Body on Screen / E. Ann Kaplan
List of Contributors
Index
Off the screen and onto the runway
Adrienne Munich is Professor of English at Stony Brook University. She is author of Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and Queen Victoria's Secrets and co-editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture.
"Munich has woven together a wonderful collection that lays bare not only the long standing interdependency between fashion and film, but also their interchangeability as sources of inspiration." Louise Wallenberg, Director of the Center for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University
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