Description
Undressing Cinema is a book that examines the significance of clothing in film. It discusses new film noir, the gangster movie, and New Black Cinema, among other topics. Stella Bruzzi analyzes assumptions about femininity and masculinity and examines the relationship between gender and dress in recent cinema. She also considers drag in films.
From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities.
Undressing Cinema, an innovative examination of the significance of clothes in film, proposes new and dynamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis. Exploring new film noir, the gangster movie and New Black Cinema, Stella Bruzzi analyzes assumptions about femininity and masculinity and examines the relationship between gender and dress in recent cinema, discussing such films as
Basic Instinct,
Disclosure,
The Last Seduction,
Goodfellas,
Reservoir Dogs,
La Femme Nikita,
Malcolm X,
Boyz 'N The Hood and
New Jack City. Bruzzi also considers drag in films, and proposes a radical differentiation between the unerotic cross-dressing of
Mrs Doubtfire and the eroticized ambiguity of the androgynous
Orlando.
With nearly 50 film stills, this handsome volume is a must for all film and fashion aficionados.
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