Undressing cinema: Clothes, identities, films

Focussing on the narrative significance of clothes in film, this text proposes new links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. It examines the relationship between film and fashion - for instance, the notion that clothing, in such films as "The Piano" and "The Age of Innocence", can be a repressive or an expressive statement of sexuality. 248 pages.