Description
The first book to examine the role of fashion and costume in the construction of horror, with varied case studies from literature, film, and real life
About the Author
Julia Petrov is Curator of Western Canadian History at the Royal Alberta Museum and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of The Thing About Museums (2011) and Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (2012). Gudrun D. Whitehead is an assistant professor of museum studies at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland. She is the Icelandic editor of the journal Nordisk Museologi and the lead editor of a forthcoming special edition of Museum and Society (2018).
Reviews
Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature offers an incredible source to investigate the intriguing relationship between dress and horror as narrated in literature, cinema, and television. * The Journal of Dress History *
Fashioning Horror unlocks the chilling wardrobe of a grisly array of sartorially obsessed monsters, ghosts and killers. The essays skilfully analyse the fashionable signification of the undead, flesh-eaters, slashers and their prey; a dazzling cast of fashion victims from the twelfth century to the present day. -- Jonathan Faiers, Professor of Fashion Thinking, Winchester School of Art, UK, and author of Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
This book offers a worthwhile contribution to the highly apparent, but often overlooked, connection between fashion and horror. The authors in this collection pay great attention to the intricacies of fashion, costume and design across a range of horror genres. Most importantly, they explore the problems found in the link between materiality and genre itself. -- Royce Mahawatte, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781350133273
Author Julia Petrov
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 358g