Cinematic Style
Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film
Published on 24. February 2022
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-350-13761-5 (ISBN)
Description
From cinema's silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on screen, stunning silhouettes and striking spaces still have the ability to dazzle to dramatic effect. This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age.
With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel's costumes for Gloria Swanson and a Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.
Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory, Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.
With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel's costumes for Gloria Swanson and a Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.
Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory, Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.
Reviews / Votes
Cinematic Style approaches the long-term disciplinary distinction between fashion, architectural decor and interior design through the lens of cinema, arguing for the interconnectivity of these fields. Abundantly illustrated, with an approachable writing style and innovative story line, it is an essential read for scholars of the domestic, commercial, or fictive interior, fashion historians, architects and historic preservationists alike. * Anca Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA * Berry brings themes from feminist theory, and to a lesser degree, Queer theory, to bear on this slice through film history to consider intersections between fashion, design and groupings of films (many canonical) from the 1920s and 1930s, the mid- and late 20th-century, and more recent examples. Anyone with an interest in masquerade, transformation, performativity, staging, interiority, gender, and sexuality, as well as camp, Queer nostalgia, and Queer heterotopias, fashion and luxury, will find much to intrigue them in here. * Pat Kirkham, Kingston School of Art, UK *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
48 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-13761-5 (9781350137615)
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E-Book
01/2022
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
€28.49
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Person
Jess Berry is Senior Lecturer in Design History at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of House of Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cinematic Style-Fashion, Architecture and the Interior on Film
1. Bedrooms, Boudoirs and Bathrooms: Modern Women, Seductive Spaces and Spectacular Silhouettes
2. Evil Lairs and Bachelor Dandies: Modernist Architecture, Spies and the Suit
3. Luxurious Longings: Queer Heterotopias in Decor and Dress
4. Grand Entrances: Staircases, Stages and Fashion Parades
5. Windows and Screens: Cinema, Department Stores and Boutique Displays
6. Dream Spaces: Film Sets as Fashion Flagships and Experiential Retail Environments
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cinematic Style-Fashion, Architecture and the Interior on Film
1. Bedrooms, Boudoirs and Bathrooms: Modern Women, Seductive Spaces and Spectacular Silhouettes
2. Evil Lairs and Bachelor Dandies: Modernist Architecture, Spies and the Suit
3. Luxurious Longings: Queer Heterotopias in Decor and Dress
4. Grand Entrances: Staircases, Stages and Fashion Parades
5. Windows and Screens: Cinema, Department Stores and Boutique Displays
6. Dream Spaces: Film Sets as Fashion Flagships and Experiential Retail Environments
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography Bibliography Index