Birds of paradise : costume as cinematic spectacle / edited by marketa Uhlirova

Contributor(s):

Uhlirova, Marketa

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Koenig Books, [2013]Description: 343 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 29 cmContent type:

text
imatge

Media type:

no mediat

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9783863352189
3863352181

Subject(s):

Contents:

Conté: Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Marketa Uhlirova -- Dreams for Sale / Esther Leslie -- Part I: Costume Brought Into Focus: From the Nineteenth-Century Stage to Early Cinema: Plates I -- Captions for Plates I -- Dancing on top of the world: a serpentine through Late Nineteenth-Century entertainment, fashion and film / Catherine Hindson -- Cosmic voyages in advance of cinema: 'La Loie' skirts the universe / Jpdy Sperling -- The serpentine dance in the cinematograph / Giovanni Lista -- Costume in early 'marvellous' cinema: the aesthetic of opulence and the teasing image / Marketa Uhlirova -- Part II: Performing Costume in the Silent Cinema of the 1910s and 1920s: Plates II -- Captions for Plates II -- Engendering Faust: The Veiled Lady in Nino Oxilia's Rapsodia Satanica (1915/17) / Eugenia Paulicelli -- Born fully clothed: the significance of costume for the silent cinema vamp/Inga Fraser -- 'Become the thing we looked to be': Glamorous Gloria in DeMille's Jazz Age films / Sumiko Higashi -- Poetry in motion: costume, choreography and the showgirl revue in American Cinema in the 1920s-40s / Lucy Fischer -- Dance, fashion and music hall scenes in European silent films of the 1920s / Karl Toepfer -- Part III: Fashioning Queer Underground Cinema from the 1940s to the 1970s: Plates III -- Captions for Plates III -- Kenneth Anger: clothing, queerness, magic / Juan A. Suarez -- Fashion, thrift stores and the space of pleasure in the 1960s queer underground film/Ronald Gregg -- Dressing pink narcissus / Ryan Powell

Summary: "This book explores cinema costume as a form of opulent visual spectacle. It focuses on dozens of lavishly styled films made during three distinct historical 'episodes' in European and American cinema - early film of the turn of the 20th century, popular exotic spectaculars of the 1910s and '20s, and underground queer cinema with its core activity in the 1960s - in order to examine how and why they often foregrounded dress as the star of the show. Looking at the medium of film in parallel with wider cultures of urban popular spectacle and entertainment, especially fashion, dance and the theatre, the contributors to this book explore how dynamic displays of costume and splendour have helped visualise certain key concerns of modernity, such as movement, time, transience and gender identity. Above all, the essays highlight the immense transformative potential of costume and fashion in the moving image and beyond. The volume is illustrated with over 300 film stills, frame enlargements and other archival image" -- Informació de la web fashioninfilm

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	391(09) BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900070804

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"This book explores cinema costume as a form of opulent visual spectacle. It focuses on dozens of lavishly styled films made during three distinct historical 'episodes' in European and American cinema - early film of the turn of the 20th century, popular exotic spectaculars of the 1910s and '20s, and underground queer cinema with its core activity in the 1960s - in order to examine how and why they often foregrounded dress as the star of the show. Looking at the medium of film in parallel with wider cultures of urban popular spectacle and entertainment, especially fashion, dance and the theatre, the contributors to this book explore how dynamic displays of costume and splendour have helped visualise certain key concerns of modernity, such as movement, time, transience and gender identity. Above all, the essays highlight the immense transformative potential of costume and fashion in the moving image and beyond. The volume is illustrated with over 300 film stills, frame enlargements and other archival image" -- Informació de la web fashioninfilm

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