Placeholder text

Go to cart

Fashioning Horror

By Julia Petrov

Fashioning Horror Media & Communication

Fashioning Horror

By Julia Petrov

0 - Default Title
Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2019-08-22
Publication Date:
2019-08-22
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350133272
ISBN13:
9781350133273
Weight:
389 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out