Film, Fashion, and the 1960s

Eugenia Paulicelli is Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is author of Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire; Fashion is a Serious Business: Rosa Genoni, Milan Expo 1906 and The Great War, and Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age.Louise Wallenberg is Associate Professor in Film and Fashion Studies and former director of The Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. She is co-editor of Nordic Fashion Studies and has published extensively on film and fashion. Drake Stutesman teaches theoretical approaches to film costume design at New York University, where she co-organizes an annual conference on film costume. She is editor of the cinema and media journal Framework.

This collection of essays is enlightening and fruitful in demonstrating the richness of the scholarship regarding fashion and film, evident in the range of voices and range of conceptual approaches. This would be an invaluable read for scholars and fans of fashion and film costume, as well as for film historians, particularly with an interest in 1960s European film.(Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television) With a focus on the most turbulent decade of the twentieth century, the collection of essays in Film, Fashion, and the 1960s captures a period profoundly marked by cultural innovation, political activism, and a rising consumer demographic that questioned conventional boundaries and reshaped the urban environment. . . . Film, Fashion, and the 1960s is an important resource that offers an additional perspective on the collaboration between directors and costume designers and may provide inspiration for further discussions. Most importantly, the range of topics illuminated by the analysis of the intermediality of cinema and fashion would appeal to readers interested in the cultural implications of the decade and its emerging trickle up mechanisms that allowed consumers to transform themselves into active participants in the construction of the modern fashion system.- Alicia Mihalić (The Journal of Dress History)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction / Eugenia Paulicelli and Louise WallenbergPart 1: 1960s: Youth Culture and Sexual Liberation1. Sanitizing the Beatles for Revolution: Music, Film, and Fashion in 1960s A Hard Day's Night / Ronald Gregg2. The Art of Undressing: Automation and Exposure at the Margins of Cinema / Amy Herzog3. Pasolini's Teorema: the Eroticism of the Visitor's Discarded Clothes / Stella Bruzzi4. Rite of Passage: the Hat that Wouldn't Disappear in the 1960s / Drake StutesmanPart 2: Cities, Nations and Fashion5. Fashion Apart: Godard and Fageol in the 1960s Paris / Astrid Söderbergh Widding6. Fashion, Film, Rome / Eugenia Paulicelli7. Contexts, Contradictions, Couture, and Clothing: Fashion in An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany's and A Touch of Mink / Pat Kirkham and Marilyn CohenPart 3: Gender: Modernity/Tradition8. The Fashioning of Julie Christie and the Mythologizing of "Swinging London": Changing Images in Sixties Britain / Pamela Church Gibson9. Women in White: Femininity and Female Desire in 1960s Bombay Cinema / Anupama Kapse10. Mago's Magic: Fashioning Sexual Indifference in Ingmar Bergman's 1960s Cinema / Louise Wallenberg11. Single Men: Sixties Aesthetics and Vintage Style in Contemporary Cinema / Nick Rees-RobertsPart 4: Epilogue12. Adriana Berselli: Costume for Cinema and Theater / Eugenia Paulicelli13. Souvenir of a Costume Designer / Adriana BerselliIndex