Fashion in Film

FA FD FF 230 (Cinema & Theater Studies)
FA FD FF 230 (Fashion Design)
Note: this course is cross-listed
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: 45

The theme of this course is the relationship between film and fashion. This inexorable link is manifested in a wide variety of ways, some of them ambiguous. The course takes a thematic approach and we will explore how movies have contributed to major fashion trends (not just in clothes, but also in hairstyles, make-up, jewelry, and accessories); how fashion is used to define a character; how actors become iconic through dress; and how fashion is linked to particular trends in film, particularly from the 1950s to the present day, and to the creation of "cult films." Excerpts from a number of films will be screened, including: Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, Quadrophenia, American Gigolo, Annie Hall, Barbarella, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Prerequisite: none