Fashion in Film [Paperback]

The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoinette looks,Fashion in Filmuncovers the way in which the alliance of these two powerhouse industries use myriad cultural influencesshaping narrative, national identity, and all points in between. Contributor essays address international films from early cinema to the present, drawing on the classic and the innovative. This abundantly illustrated collection reveals that fashion in conjunction with film must be understood in a different way from fashiontout simple.

Off the screen and onto the runway

Adrienne Munich is Professor of English at Stony Brook University. She is author ofAndromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and ArtandQueen Victoria's Secretsand co-editor of the journalVictorian Literature and Culture.

Fashion in Film is a recommended pick for arts collections strong in fashion as well as film libraries.

The individual essays work together effectively and are, for the most part, free of the jargon that sometimes mars both film and cultural analyses. . . . Recommended.November 2011

Adrienne Munich has edited a compelling collection of scholarly articles exploring the intense relationship between film and fashion, devoted to topics as various as vampire fashion, the adaptation of the New Look in 1950s Hollywood melodrama and fashion shows in French film. A stunning look at the enduring fascination of what to wear in the dream world that is film.

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.

This important anthology meanders between the histories of cinema and fashion, and beyond, to deliver fresh perspectives and approaches to a subject that is gathering a mló1