Cantitate/Preț
Produs

A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity

Autor Laura T. Di Summa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2024
The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and emotional engagement, this is the first time fashion and costume choices are analyzed to demonstrate how movies can be said to be doing philosophy. Considering how fashion and costumes can deliver the epistemic content of a film and act as a guidance to the interpretation of the philosophical content of a film, Laura T. Di Summa examines fashion and costume choices in classical and contemporary films. She discusses a number of cinematic examples, and the costumes and fashion elements within them, illustrating the importance of issues such as the performative side of fashion, the alteration between novelty and repetition, the pivotal role of the body, and the relation between fashion, style, and individual as well as collective identity. Featuring close examinations of 1950s melodramas, Hollywood blockbusters and documentaries such as All That Heaven Allows, Mad Max Fury Road, and McQueen, Di Summa uses an innovative new lens to provide fresh philosophical analysis of films. The result is not only an advancement of our understanding of the aesthetic means through which film can do philosophy, but the first insights into a philosophy of fashion.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 18854 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 29 mai 2024 18854 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 53605 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 16 noi 2022 53605 lei  6-8 săpt.

Preț: 18854 lei

Preț vechi: 24801 lei
-24% Nou

Puncte Express: 283

Preț estimativ în valută:
3608 3748$ 2997£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 03-17 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350343757
ISBN-10: 1350343757
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Through a discussion of a wide variety of movies provides an opening towards a philosophy of fashion - a significant topic so far not comprehensively explored within philosophy

Notă biografică

Laura T. Di Summa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University, USA. She is a co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (2019).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction1. Defining FashionFashion: An Item PerformsFashion and the NewFashion and Bodily IdentityPerformance and StyleFashion as a Performance and the MoviesConclusions: Towards a Definition of Fashion2. Repetition and the NewFashion: What's New The Dynamic of Repetition and the New: Designing FashionThe Power of Repetition: Three MoviesCary's grey lady suit and the promise of the red dress A homage to Doug Sirk: Two Movies by Todd HaynesTwenty QipaosConclusions: Rethinking Repetition3. The BodyExploring the BodyFashion and the Body: Staring and Strategies for Aesthetic ExplorationFuriosa's StrengthBlack Panther: Carter's Superhero Costumes, Worn EverydayMoonlight: The Gold GrillConclusions: Aesthetic Explorations4. Couture and CostumesAcknowledging Costume DesignCostumes?Fashion and Costumes: Avenues of ConversationPhantom Thread: Filming the CouturierFashion and Costume Designers: Tom Ford and Arianne PhillipsHistorical Accuracy and Imaginative Freedom: Dressing Marie Antoinette30 Years of Geoffrey BeeneConclusions: Two Industries5. On Fashion and IdentityThe Episodic Self: Fashion and IdentityNarrative Identity and its ShortcomingsAll Chanel: Personal ShopperMcQueen: The RunwayL'Année dernière à Marienbad: Fashion or Identity?Conclusions: Episodes and Fashion6. Closing Thoughts: A Philosophy of Fashion - Through FilmWhat is Fashion?Moving Pictures and Moving BodiesReassessing IdentityFashion, Off-Screen EpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

Recenzii

In her exciting new book, Laura T. Di Summa opens a new subject for the philosophy of film - movie fashion. Through enlightening discussions of costume design, accessories, and prosthetics as both elements of film style and prompts for questions of personal identity, Di Summa weaves an intricate text of her own.
In recent years, theoretical aesthetics has been expanding its purview both in terms of the subjects it finds worthy of attention and of the sources it is willing to consider for philosophical insight. A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film exemplifies both of these tendencies with style and verve. It takes fashion as its topic and examines what it has to say about the expression of selfhood by making the ingenious methodological move of approaching this topic through the optic of cinema where the issue is especially pronounced. Recommended to all lovers of fashion, film, and philosophy.
Laura T. Di Summa has written a marvellous book on the philosophy of film, arguing that fashion is performative - something we do, not just something we wear. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Noël Carroll, she shows with admirable clarity how fashion is woven into cinematic aesthetics. A pleasure to read.