Fashioning horror : dressing to kill on screen and in literature /

Fashioning horror : dressing to kill on screen and in literature /

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Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Fashion in motion pictures. Fashion in literature. Fashion on television. Horror films -- History and criticism. Horror television programs -- History and criticism. Horror in literature. Costume -- Symbolic aspects. Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects. Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects. Costume -- Symbolic aspects. Fashion in literature. Fashion in motion pictures. Fashion on television. Horror films. Horror in literature. Horror television programs. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11592110

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Other authors / contributors:	Petrov, Julia A., editor. Whitehead, Gudrun D., editor.
ISBN:	9781350036185 1350036188
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and costume, in literature, film, and real life. With a series of case studies that range from sensationalist cinema and slasher films to true crime and nineteenth-century literature, the volume investigates the central importance of clothing to the horror genre, and broadens our understanding of both material and popular culture. Arguing that dress is fundamental to our understanding of character and setting within horror, the chapters also reveal how the grotesque and horrific is at the center of fashion itself, with its potential for instability, disguise, and carnivalesque subversion. Packed with original research, and bringing together a range of international scholars, the book is the first to thoroughly examine the aesthetics of terror and the role of fashion in the construction of horror--back cover.

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