Description: The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they are a unique source of knowledge about issues ranging from Indian taste and fashion to questions of identity, gender and work. Anthropological and film studies approaches combine to analyze costume as the outcome of production processes and as a cinematic device for conveying meaning. Chapters lead from the places where costume is planned and executed to explorations of characterization, the actor body, spectacles of fashion, to the imagining of historical or fantasy worlds through dress, to the power of stardom to launch clothing styles into the public domain. As well as charting the course of film costume as it parallels important trends in cultural history, the book considers the future of Hindi film costume, in the context of new strains of filmmaking that stress unvarnished realism. Fashioning Bollywood will appeal to students and scholars of Indian culture, anthropology and fashion, as well as anyone who has seen and enjoyed Hindi films.
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EAN: 9781847886972
UPC: 9781847886972
ISBN: 9781847886972
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Book Title: Fashioning Bollywood: The Making and Meaning of Hi
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fashioning Bollywood : the Making and Meaning of Hindi Film Costume
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Textile & Costume, Fashion & Accessories, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Subject Area: Design, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Author: Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
