Fashioning Bollywood: The Making and Meaning of Hindi Film Costume

ISBN-13: 9781847886972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Clare Wilkinson-Weber

Opis

The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they are a unique source of knowledge about issues ranging from Indian taste and fashion to questions of identity, gender and work.Anthropological and film studies approaches combine to analyze costume as the outcome of production processes and as a cinematic device for conveying meaning. Chapters lead from the places where costume is planned and executed to explorations of characterization, the actor body, spectacles of fashion, to the imagining of historical or fantasy worlds through dress, to the power of stardom to launch clothing styles into the public domain. As well as charting the course of film costume as it parallels important trends in cultural history, the book considers the future of Hindi film costume, in the context of new strains of filmmaking that stress unvarnished realism.Fashioning Bollywood will appeal to students and scholars of Indian culture, anthropology and fashion, as well as anyone who has seen and enjoyed Hindi films.

Recenzje

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the anthropology of material culture, social systems, gender studies, dress and body, film studies, Indian culture, and fashion. It will also appeal to the more analytically minded Bollywood cinema lover. It is essential reading for those whose focus is on dress. Lynne Hume, The University of Queensland Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The People and Places of Costume Production Chapter 2: Costume and Character: Wearing and Being Chapter 3: Costume and the Body Chapter 4: Fashion and Spectacle Chapter 5: Dressing the Past Chapter 6: Beyond the Screen Notes Bibliography FilmographyIndex

O autorze

Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. She has been educated in the UK and US, earning her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. She has done research for over twenty years in India, and has published extensively on craft and media production.