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Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

by Julia Petrov
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350133273
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 34.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Fashion & Accessories, Media Studies, and Textile & Costume

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.

Petrov, Julia: - 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).

Whitehead, Gudrun D.: - Gudrun D. Whitehead is an assistant professor of museum studies at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, 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).

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