Fashion in film - Munich, Adrienne (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011)
Introduction : fashion shows / Adrienne Munich -- Fashioning film. Costume design, or, what is fashion in film? / Drake Stutesman -- What to wear in a vampire film / Mary Ann Caws -- Noir fashion and noir as fashion / Ula Lukszo -- Surface, fabric, weave : the fashioned world of Wong Kar-wai / Giuliana Bruno -- Filming fashion. The walkies : early French fashion shows as a cinema of attractions / Caroline Evans -- Wanting to wear seeing : Gilbert Adrian at MGM / Jane M. Gaines -- "It will be a magnificent obsession" : femininity, desire, and the New Look in 1950s Hollywood -- Melodrama / Stella Bruzzi -- Adornment in the afterlife of Victorian fashion / Maura Spiegel -- Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette : costumes, girl power, and feminism / Diana Diamond -- Fashioning national identities. Slave to fashion : maculinity, suits, and the Maciste films of Italian silent cinema / Jacqueline Reich -- The stars and stripes in fashion films / Adrienne Munich -- Does dress tell the nation's story? fashion, history, and nation in the films of Fassbinder / Kristin Hole -- Subversive habits : minority women in Mani Ratnam's Roja and Dil Se / Sarah Berry -- Epilogue : after fashion. Un-fashionable age: clothing and unclothing the older woman's body on screen / E. Ann Kaplan.
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.