Costume and Cinema : Dress Codes in Popular Film

Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film presents an overview of the literature on film costume, together with a series of detailed case studies which highlight how costume is a key signifier in film texts. Sarah Street demonstrates how costume relates in fundamental ways to the study of film narrative an mise- en-sc?ne, in some cases constituting a language of its own. In particular the book foregrounds the related issues of adaptation and embodiment in a variety of different genres and films including The Talented Mr Ripley, Desperately Seeking Susan, Titanic and The Matrix.