Fashioning Horror
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Fashioning Horror

Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fashioning Horror

Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781350133273
eBook ISBN
9781350036192
Edition
1
Topic
Design
Subtopic
Fashion Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction: Fashion and Fear
  10. 1. “Death Dress You Anew”: Fashion as Transience and Limit of Human Life in Christian Literature and Iconographies between the Twelfth and Nineteenth Centuries
  11. 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
  12. 3. Fashioning Frankenstein in Film: Brides of Frankenstein
  13. 4. Wayward Wedding Dresses: Fabricating Horror in Dressing Rituals of Femininity
  14. 5. Fashioning Revenge: Costume, Crime, and Contamination in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s La Vengeance d’une femme
  15. 6. Fashions from Hell: The Enduring Influence of Jack the Ripper on Dress
  16. 7. Slasher Consciousness: Class, Killer Clothes, and Heterogeneity
  17. 8. Fashioning Frankenstein in Film: Monsters and Men
  18. 9. Horrific Transformations: Costume, Gender, and the Halloween Franchise
  19. 10. Faces of Rage: Masks, Murderers, and Motives in the Canadian Slasher Film
  20. 11. Massacres and Masquerades: The Costume in the American Slasher Film and the Cultural Myth of the “Foolkiller”
  21. Index