Fabrications
Subtitle: costume and the female body
By: edited by Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog.
Contributors: Gaines, Jane, 1946-; Herzog, Charlotte, 1946-
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Feminism and the arts
Description: Fabrications begins with a single germ in feminist film theory--the "to-be-looked-at" aesthetic described by Laura Mulvey--and pushes it further, considering the pleasures women derive from consumer culture against the social costs they have paid as wife, mother, and worker. Here, American feminist film theory converges with British cultural studies; critics survey the connections between the female consumer and the female viewer, the motion picture industry and the ready wear industry, the fashion in critical theory and the fashion in clothes. Contributors: Jeanne Allen, Sarafina K. Bathrick, Charles Eckert, Jane M. Gaines, Charlotte Herzog, Angela McRobbie, Betsy Holdsworth Nielson, Laurie Schulze, Gaye Studlar, Maureen Turim, Elizabeth Wilson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-294).
Table of contents: title: All the rage / Elizabeth Wilson; title: Fame, flashdance, and fantasies of achievement / Angela McRobbie; title: On the muscle / Laurie Schulze; title: The female colossus / Serafina K. Bathrick; title: The Carole Lombard in Macy's window / Charles Eckert; title: Fig leaves in Hollywood / Jeanne Thomas Allen; title: Powder puff promotion / Charlotte Herzog; title: Handmaidens of the glamour culture / ElizabethNielsen; title: Costume and narrative / Jane Gaines; title: Designing women / Maureen Turim; title: Masochism, masquerade, and the erotic metamorphoses of Marlene Dietrich / Gaylyn Studlar.