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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustration -- Contributors -- Introduction Fashion and Fear -- Fashion, fabric and phantasmagoria: Speculations on terminology -- Whoâ#x80;#x99;s afraid of fashion? -- The fashion of horror -- Methodological approaches to dress in horror -- Book aims and scope -- Dressing the part: Disguise, performance, and monstrosity -- Dressing the part: Intertextuality, class, and gender -- Toward a theory of fashioned horror -- Notes -- References |
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1 â#x80;#x9C;Death Dress You Anewâ#x80;#x9D; Fashion as Transience and Limit of Human Life in Christian Literature and Iconographies between the TwThe Christian view of mortality -- Medieval sermons on death and dress -- Painted sermons and vanitas -- The Prince of the World, transi tombs, and Danse Macabre -- A dialogue between death and fashion -- Notes -- References -- 2 â#x80;#x9C;Their Tattered Mortal Costumes Will Afford Them None Of The Answers They Seekâ#x80;#x9D; Clothing Immortals in the Work of Anne Rice, -- The vampires of Rice, Lee, and Carter |
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The curse of immortality: The literary vampire as an icon of existential horrorFashion as revenant -- The color red -- The wedding dress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Fashioning Frankenstein In Film Brides of Frankenstein -- Fashioning an icon: Elsa Lanchesterâ#x80;#x99;s bride -- Fashioning vengeance: Frankenstein Created Woman -- Fashioning a new bride: Mary Shelleyâ#x80;#x99;s Frankenstein -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Wayward Wedding Dresses Fabricating Horror in Dressing Rituals of Femininity |
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The white wedding dress: Rituals of femininity draped in whiteWhite decay: The haunting horror of Miss Havishamâ#x80;#x99;s dress -- White passion: Tearing the veil -- Fabricating â#x80;#x9C;madnessâ#x80;#x9D; -- Fashioning fabric: Unveiling femininity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Fashioning Revenge Costume, Crime, and Contamination in Barbey dâ#x80;#x99;Aurevillyâ#x80;#x99;s La Vengeance dâ#x80;#x99;une femme -- Barbey dâ#x80;#x99;Aurevilly: From â#x80;#x9C;Prince of Darknessâ#x80;#x9D; to fashion columnist -- The great (contaminating) â#x80;#x9C;social evilâ#x80;#x9D; -- Outfitting vice -- Infecting fashions: Revenge and contamination |
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Veiling ambiguityFashion and horror: Haunting presences -- Notes -- References -- 6 Fashions From Hell The Enduring Influence of Jack the Ripper on Dress -- 1888â#x80;#x94;The devil comes to Whitechapel -- From hell to Hollywood and back -- The spectacle of horror -- Shrouded in mystery -- Conclusion: â#x80;#x9C;Those women really diedâ#x80;#x9D; -- Notes -- References -- 7 Slasher Consciousness Class, Killer Clothes, and Heterogeneity -- Fashionâ#x80;#x99;s horror story -- Contagious fashion -- Wearing clothes inside out -- Killer elegance -- Killing to fit in |
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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. |
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Fashion in motion pictures.
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Fashion in motion pictures. |
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Fashion in literature.
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Fashion in literature. |
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Fashion on television.
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Fashion on television. |
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
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Horror television programs -- History and criticism.
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Horror television programs. |
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Horror in literature.
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Horror in literature. |
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Costume -- Symbolic aspects.
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Costume -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects.
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Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Costumes. |
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Petrov, Julia, editor.
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Whitehead, Gudrun D., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fashioning horror. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781350036185 (DLC) 2017043745 (OCoLC)988761061 |
| ISBN |
9781350036208 (electronic book) |
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135003620X (electronic book) |
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9781350036185 |
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1350036188 |
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9781350036192 (electronic book) |
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1350036196 (electronic book) |
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9781350036215 (XML) |
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1350036218 (XML) |
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