Fashioning film stars : culture, identity / edited by Rachel Moseley

Part One: Hollywood ; Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette: wich body too much ; storytelling: Marlene Dietrich's face and John Frederics' hats ; Gregory Peck: anti-fashion icon ; pillow talk´s repackaging of Doris day: 'under all those dirndls...' ; Brad Pitt and George Clooney, the rough and the smooth: male costuming in contemporary Hollywood ; Samuel L. Jackson: beyond the post-soul male -- Part two: Asia, Latin America and Europe ; Sulochana: clothes, stardom and gender in early indian cinema ; the Hollywood movie star and the mexican chica moderna ; dress, class and Audrey Hepburn: the significance of the Cinderella story ; Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall ; hot couture: Brigitte Bond's fashion revolution ; 'Sean Connery is James Bond': re-fashioning british masculinity in the 1960s ; Luisina Brando's costuming in María Luisa Bemberg's films: an excessive feminity -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress and star image. While studies of individual stars have often commented on the importance of style to the construction of their persona, such work has until now remained largely focused upon the female Hollywood, or occasionally European, star. This scholarly and readable volume redresses that balance, offering close analyses of the detail and significance of male and female star style in Hollywood. European, Asian and Latin American contexts. It brings together a range of theoretical and methodological frameworks from textual analysis, archival research and audience study to offer, for the first time, a detailed consideration of the importance of the fashioning of film stars. Fashioning Film Stars asks: how does dress operate in relation to stardom to articulate particular identities - gendered, national, classed, ethnic, sexual? How, precisely, does film costume operate, and how is it understood, semiotically, socially, culturally? Does star dress 'disappear' against the body as 'clothes', or speak out performatively as 'costume' or 'spectacle'? It answers them in an engaging and accessible volume which will be of interest to film scholars and film fans alike." -- Tomado de la contraportada.