Italian style : fashion & film from early cinema to the digital age / Eugenia Paulicelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulicelli, Eugenia, 1958- author.

Series:

Topics and issues in national cinema ; v. 5.

Topics and issues in national cinema ; vvolume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Italy.

History.

Fashion in motion pictures.

Costume--Symbolic aspects.

Costume.

National characteristics in motion pictures.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016.

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.

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 Prêt-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'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Paulicelli, Eugenia, 1958- author. Italian style.

ISBN:

9781441189158

1441189157

OCLC:

857981614