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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Costume for Performance"”.
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Screen-to-measure: An Interdisciplinary and Embodied Approach to the Investigation of Film Noir Costumes Informed by Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen, USA, 1944) and Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA, 1944)
… there is very little work that focuses on the costume design of classic Hollywood film noir. There is no scholarship on the making process of costumes in the studio system. Yet over three decades (1990-2020), the study of film costume design has become a burgeoning field that focusses on …
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Decoding Robin Hood: Towards a Palimpsestic Method - Reading Layers of Meaning through the Costumes of the Cinematic Robin Hoods, 1938-2018
Decoding Robin Hood studies the way in which the costumes of cinematic Robin Hoods in Hollywood have changed between 1938 and 2018, and how these costumes and changes convey meaning through context. Evolving from medieval folk tales and ballads through pageantry and plays with a green-clad hero who …
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Drawing and re-drawing: Working with the physicality of the performing body in costume design
How does the act of drawing enable the costume designer to design costumes that work effectively with the physicality of the performing body? This research is located in the field of scenography and refers specifically to costume design practices within this field. The research project developed …
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Drawing, Interpretation and Costume Design: a study of the costumed body informed by watching 'Tanztheater Wuppertal' in rehearsal and performance
… applications of theory to record and analyse the costumed body in performance. While costume scholarship has gained momentum in recent years, this is the first research project to fully explore the application of drawing blind as a means of documenting a researcher’s response to the costumed body. …
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Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance
Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance entitles a PhD thesis, undertaken at the London College of Fashion, consisting of practice-based research in design and performance. The project interrogates the choreographic space of real-time interactive dance performance through …
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Costuming fictional working-class lives: Jimmy McGovern’s The Street (2006-2009, Granada Productions)
… Granada). Critical analysis of television costume has gained momentum since the mid-1990s (Baert, 1994; Church Gibson & Bruzzi, 2004; Lugli, 2007; Warner, 2014; Brownie, 2014; Boumaroun, 2018; Wolthuis, 2020; Mullholland, 2020) however, the focus thus far has not been on the connection …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
… research examines the creative agency of costume through a phenomenological framework that defines the relationship between the designer’s body and materials within processes devised through this PhD. While scholarship on costume materiality and creative practice is gaining ground, by …