Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Petrov, Julia A.
2. Whitehead, Gudrun D.

Description

1. xv, 234 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and costume, in literature, film, and real life. With a series of case studies that range from sensationalist cinema and slasher films to true crime and nineteenth-century literature, the volume investigates the central importance of clothing to the horror genre, and broadens our understanding of both material and popular culture. Arguing that dress is fundamental to our understanding of character and setting within horror, the chapters also reveal how the grotesque and horrific is at the center of fashion itself, with its potential for instability, disguise, and carnivalesque subversion. Packed with original research, and bringing together a range of international scholars, the book is the first to thoroughly examine the aesthetics of terror and the role of fashion in the construction of horror--back cover.

Subject

1. Costume > Symbolic aspects
2. Horror in literature
3. Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects
4. Fashion in motion pictures
5. Horror television programs > History and criticism
6. Fashion on television
7. Fashion in literature
8. Horror films > History and criticism
9. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: fashion and fear / Gudrun D. Whitehead and Julia Petrov -- 1. "Death dress you anew": fashion as transience and limit of human life in Christian literature and iconographies between the twelfth and nineteenth centures / Sara Piccolo Paci -- 2. "Their tattered mortal costumes will afford them none of the answers they seek": clothing immortals in the work of Anne Rice, Tanith Lee, and Angela Carter / Stephanie Bowry -- 3. Fashioning Frankenstein in film: brides of Frankenstein / Rafael Jaen and Robert I. Lublin -- 4. Wayward wedding dresses: fabricating horror in dressing rituals of femininity / Sarah Heaton -- 5. Fashioning revenge: costume, crime, and contamination of Barbey d'Aurevilly's La Vengeance d'une femme / Kasia Stempniak -- 6. Fashions from Hell: the enduring influence of Jack the Ripper on dress / Alanna McKnight -- 7. Slasher consciousness: class, killer clothes, and heterogeneity / Nigel Lezama -- 8. Fashioning Frankenstein in film: monsters and men / Rafael Jaen and Robert I. Lublin -- 9. Horrific transformations: costume, gender, and the Halloween franchise / Nadia Buick and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- 10. Faces if rage: masks, murderers, and motives in the Canadian slasher film / Rose Butler -- 11. Massacres and masquerades: the costume in the American slasher film and the cultural myth of the "foolkiller" / Florent Christol.

Call number

1. MFL 19-2993

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Fashioning horror : dressing to kill on screen and in literature / edited by Julia Petrov and Gudrun D. Whitehead.

Publisher

1. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Petrov, Julia A., editor.
2. Whitehead, Gudrun D., editor.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9781350036208

LCCN

1. 2017043745

ISBN

1. 9781350036185 (hardcover)
2. 1350036188 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. MFL 19-2993