Description
Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a variety of theoretical, historical, conceptual and practical contexts, this exciting volume also reflects on the broader relationship between costume and visual culture throughout.
"At last a book on costume that truly answers the questions practitioners and scholars ask themselves on a daily basis. Monks and Maclaurin combine their intellectual and practical skills in a book which must surely rank as the most significant book on theatrical costume this decade." - Scott Anderson, Queen Margaret University, UK "An important text to engage students in theoretical debate." - Anne Curry, Nottingham Trent University, UK
About the Author
Reviews
I am delighted to have this book as part of our literature, and highly recommend it to students of costume design in theatre, television or film, theatre studies, performance studies, fashion and textiles, art and architecture, gender studies and cultural studies. It is an invaluable resource that offers an entryway through which designers, directors, performance theorists and historians may tread towards a more comprehensive history and theory of costume, with its infinite manifestations and functions. * Linda Matheson, Studies in Costume & Performance, Vol. 1 (1) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781137029485
Author Ali Maclaurin
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Readings in Theatre Practice
Weight(grams) 268g
"At last a book on costume that truly answers the questions practitioners and scholars ask themselves on a daily basis. Monks and Maclaurin combine their intellectual and practical skills in a book which must surely rank as the most significant book on theatrical costume this decade." - Scott Anderson, Queen Margaret University, UK "An important text to engage students in theoretical debate." - Anne Curry, Nottingham Trent University, UK
About the Author
Ali Maclaurin is a freelance designer and lecturer. She has practiced for over twenty years, particularly in physical theatre and young people's work, with companies such as Scottish Opera and Shadow Syndicate.
Aoife Monks is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Actor in Costume.
Reviews
I am delighted to have this book as part of our literature, and highly recommend it to students of costume design in theatre, television or film, theatre studies, performance studies, fashion and textiles, art and architecture, gender studies and cultural studies. It is an invaluable resource that offers an entryway through which designers, directors, performance theorists and historians may tread towards a more comprehensive history and theory of costume, with its infinite manifestations and functions. * Linda Matheson, Studies in Costume & Performance, Vol. 1 (1) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781137029485
Author Ali Maclaurin
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Readings in Theatre Practice
Weight(grams) 268g
