Italian Style - Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age (Hardcover)

This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present. Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. The book is the story of this launch. The creation of an Italian style and fashion as they are perceived today, especially by foreigners, was a product of the post World War II years. Before then, Parisian fashion had dominated Europe and the world. Just as fashion was part of Parisian and French national identity, the book explores the process of shaping and inventing an Italian style and fashion that ran parallel to, and at times took the lead in, the creation of an Italian national identity. In bringing to the fore these intersections, as well as emphasizing the importance of craft in cinema, fashion and costume design, the book aims to offer new visions of films by directors such as Nino Oxilia, Mario Camerini, Alessandro Blasetti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti and Paolo Sorrentino, of film stars such as Lyda Borelli, Francesca Bertini, Pina Menichelli, Lucia Bose, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Toni Servillo and others, and the costume archives and designers who have been central to the development of Made in Italy and Italian style.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Topics and Issues in National Cinema
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	May 2015
Authors:	Eugenia Paulicelli
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-8915-8
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-4411-8915-7
Barcode:	9781441189158

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