Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Fashion, cinema and Italian identity -- From France to Italy. fashion, modernity and film -- Nationalism: fashion as propaganda in the 1930s -- Part II. Towards the launch of Italian style through cinema, fashion and design -- From neorealism to the launch of Italian fashion (1942-1966) -- Fashion, film and consumption during the economic miracle. -- From Modernism to excess: Antonioni, Fellini and Visconti. Italian filmmakers and their transnational language -- The Italian road to modernity: between crisis, melodrama, comedy and critique -- Part III. From Rome to Milan: the crisis of couture and the launch of Milan Pret-a-Porter -- Italian fashion brands and foreign movies: Giorgio Armani and American Gigolo, The Untouchables (1968-1980s) -- Film and fashion fostalgia in the new millennium: between the digital revolution, globalization and 'Made in Italy'.
Summary:
"Provides an historical and theoretical framework to understand the different typologies and meanings of costume in film, going beyond content and identity of a character"-- Provided by publisher.
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