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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Paulicelli, Eugenia, 1958- author.
Series:
Topics and issues in national cinema ; Volume 5.
Topics and issues in national cinema
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Costume--Symbolic aspects.
Costume.
Fashion in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Italy--History.
Motion pictures.
National characteristics in motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016.
Language Note:
English
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-á-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:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
ISBN:
9781623568580
1623568587
9781501302473
1501302477
9781623566616
1623566614
OCLC:
948961378

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