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Fashioning horror : dressing to kill on screen and in literature /
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 sensation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustration
- Contributors
- Introduction Fashion and Fear
- Fashion, fabric and phantasmagoria: Speculations on terminology
- Whoâ#x80;#x99;s afraid of fashion?
- The fashion of horror
- Methodological approaches to dress in horror
- Book aims and scope
- Dressing the part: Disguise, performance, and monstrosity
- Dressing the part: Intertextuality, class, and gender
- Toward a theory of fashioned horror
- Notes
- References
- 1 â#x80;#x9C;Death Dress You Anewâ#x80;#x9D; Fashion as Transience and Limit of Human Life in Christian Literature and Iconographies between the TwThe Christian view of mortality
- Medieval sermons on death and dress
- Painted sermons and vanitas
- The Prince of the World, transi tombs, and Danse Macabre
- A dialogue between death and fashion
- Notes
- References
- 2 â#x80;#x9C;Their Tattered Mortal Costumes Will Afford Them None Of The Answers They Seekâ#x80;#x9D; Clothing Immortals in the Work of Anne Rice,
- The vampires of Rice, Lee, and Carter
- The curse of immortality: The literary vampire as an icon of existential horrorFashion as revenant
- The color red
- The wedding dress
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3 Fashioning Frankenstein In Film Brides of Frankenstein
- Fashioning an icon: Elsa Lanchesterâ#x80;#x99;s bride
- Fashioning vengeance: Frankenstein Created Woman
- Fashioning a new bride: Mary Shelleyâ#x80;#x99;s Frankenstein
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 Wayward Wedding Dresses Fabricating Horror in Dressing Rituals of Femininity
- The white wedding dress: Rituals of femininity draped in whiteWhite decay: The haunting horror of Miss Havishamâ#x80;#x99;s dress
- White passion: Tearing the veil
- Fabricating â#x80;#x9C;madnessâ#x80;#x9D;
- Fashioning fabric: Unveiling femininity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5 Fashioning Revenge Costume, Crime, and Contamination in Barbey dâ#x80;#x99;Aurevillyâ#x80;#x99;s La Vengeance dâ#x80;#x99;une femme
- Barbey dâ#x80;#x99;Aurevilly: From â#x80;#x9C;Prince of Darknessâ#x80;#x9D; to fashion columnist
- The great (contaminating) â#x80;#x9C;social evilâ#x80;#x9D;
- Outfitting vice
- Infecting fashions: Revenge and contamination
- Veiling ambiguityFashion and horror: Haunting presences
- Notes
- References
- 6 Fashions From Hell The Enduring Influence of Jack the Ripper on Dress
- 1888â#x80;#x94;The devil comes to Whitechapel
- From hell to Hollywood and back
- The spectacle of horror
- Shrouded in mystery
- Conclusion: â#x80;#x9C;Those women really diedâ#x80;#x9D;
- Notes
- References
- 7 Slasher Consciousness Class, Killer Clothes, and Heterogeneity
- Fashionâ#x80;#x99;s horror story
- Contagious fashion
- Wearing clothes inside out
- Killer elegance
- Killing to fit in