Costume In Motion

Author : Shura Pollatsek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781351258500

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Costume in Motion by Shura Pollatsek Pdf

Costume in Motion is a guide to all stages of the collaboration process between costume designers and choreographers, documenting a wide range of approaches to the creation of a dance piece. Featuring interviews with a diverse selection of over 40 choreographers and designers, in-depth case studies of works by leading dance companies, and stunning original photography, the book explores the particular challenges and creative opportunities of designing for the body in motion. Filled with examples of successful collaborations in contemporary and modern dance, as well as a wide range of other styles, Costume in Motion provides costume designers and choreographers with a greater understanding of the field from the other’s perspective. The book is designed to be part of the curriculum for an undergraduate or graduate level course in costume design or choreography, and it can also be an enriching read for artists at any stage of their careers wishing to hone their collaboration skills in dance.

Author : Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Costume
ISBN : UVA:X004907044

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50 Designers, 50 Costumes by Deborah Nadoolman Landis Pdf

Contemporary motion picture costume designers detail, in their own words, their most significant recent challenges and show how the creation of costume contributes to the process of building characters for the screen. Stories from the trenchesabout how these designers work with actors and directors.

Author : Shura Pollatsek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317420071

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Unbuttoned by Shura Pollatsek Pdf

Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each chapter provides an overview of the process, including designing and shopping; draping, cutting, dyeing, and painting; and beading, sewing, and creating embellishments and accessories. This book features interviews with practitioners from Broadway and regional theatres to opera and ballet companies, offering valuable insights into the costume design profession. Exceptional behind-the-scenes photography illustrates top costume designers and craftspeople at work, along with gorgeous costumes in progress.

Author : Sofia Pantouvaki,Peter McNeil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350098817

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Performance Costume by Sofia Pantouvaki,Peter McNeil Pdf

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways with theories of the body and embodiment, design practices, artistic and other forms of collaboration. Costume, like fashion and dress, is now viewed as an area of dynamic social significance and not simply as passive reflector of a pre-conceived social state or practice. This book offers new approaches to the study of costume, as well as fresh insights into the better-understood frames of historical, theoretical, practice-based and archival research into costume for performance. This anthology draws on the experience of a global group of established researchers as well as emerging voices. Below is a list of just some of the things it achieves: 1. Introduces diverse perspectives, innovative new research methods and approaches for researching design and the costumed body in performance. 2. Contributes towards a new understanding of how costume actually 'performs' in time and space. 3. Offers new insights into existing practices, as well as creating a space of connection between practitioners and researchers from design, the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Melissa Merz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317573678

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The Art and Practice of Costume Design by Melissa Merz Pdf

In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume design. Beginning with an exploration of the role of a Costume Designer, the subsequent chapters analyse and explore the psychology of dress, the principles and elements of design, how to create costume renderings, and collaboration within the production. The book also takes a look at the costume shop and the role of the designer within it, and costume design careers within theatrical and fashion industries.

Author : Donatella Barbieri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474236881

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Costume in Performance by Donatella Barbieri Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the 'fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK

Author : Lora Ann Sigler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681856

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Clothes Make the Character by Lora Ann Sigler Pdf

"Clothes make the man" (or woman). This is especially true in early Hollywood silent films where a character's appearance could show an immense number of different things about them. For example, Theda Bara's role in A Fool There Was (1915) was known for her revealing clothing, seductive appearance, and being the first "Vamp." Wardrobe and costume design played a larger role in silent films than in modern movies. The character's clothes told the audience who they were and what their role was in the movie. In this in-depth analysis, the author provides examples and explanations about noteworthy characters who used their appearance to further their fame.

Author : Kimberly Truhler
Publisher : Paladin Communications
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781735273808

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Film Noir Style by Kimberly Truhler Pdf

Film Noir Style: The Killer 1940s looks at the fashions of the femmes fatales who were so good at being bad, and the suits and trench coats of definitive noir actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Alan Ladd. Film and fashion historian Kimberly Truhler explores twenty definitive film noir titles from 1941 to 1950 and traces the evolution of popular fashion in the decade of the '40s, the impact of World War II on home-front fashion, and the influence of the film noir genre on popular fashion then and now. Meet not only the fabulous women of noir, including Betty Grable, Veronica Lake, Gene Tierney, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, and many others, but also the costume designers that created and recreated these famous stars as killers—and worse—through the clothes they wore.

Author : Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780060816506

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Dressed by Deborah Nadoolman Landis Pdf

From the lavish productions of Hollywood's Golden Age through the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on the magical transformations rendered by the costume designer. Whether spectacular or subtle, elaborate or barely there, a movie costume must be more than merely a perfect fit. Each costume speaks a language all its own, communicating mood, personality, and setting, and propelling the action of the movie as much as a scripted line or synthetic clap of thunder. More than a few acting careers have been launched on the basis of an unforgettable costume, and many an era defined by the intuition of a costume designer—think curvy Mae West in I'm No Angel (Travis Banton, costume designer), Judy Garland in A Star is Born (Jean Louis and Irene Sharaff, costume designers), Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (Ruth Morley, costume designer), or Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Deborah Nadoolman Landis, costume designer). In Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis showcases one hundred years of Hollywood's most tantalizing costumes and the characters they helped bring to life. Drawing on years of extraordinary research, Landis has uncovered both a treasure trove of costume sketches and photographs—many of them previously unpublished—and a dazzling array of first-person anecdotes that inform and enhance the images. Along the way she also provides and eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the costume designer's art, from its emergence as a key element of cinematic collaboration to its limitless future in the era of CGI. A lavish tribute that mingles words and images of equal luster, Dressed is one book no film and fashion lover should be without.

Author : Elizabeth Leese
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001380164

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Costume Design in the Movies by Elizabeth Leese Pdf

Author : Jay Jorgensen
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780762441730

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Edith Head by Jay Jorgensen Pdf

All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear Window. Sabrina. A Place in the Sun. The Ten Commandments. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith Head (1897–1981). She racked up an unprecedented 35 Oscar nods and 400 film credits over the course of a fifty-year career. Never before has the account of Hollywood's most influential designer been so thoroughly revealed—because never before have the Edith Head Archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences been tapped. This unprecedented access allows this book to be a one-of-a-kind survey, bringing together a spectacular collection of rare and never-before-seen sketches, costume test shots, behind-the- scenes photos, and ephemera.

Author : Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Publisher : Harper Design
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0061984965

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Hollywood Sketchbook by Deborah Nadoolman Landis Pdf

In Hollywood Sketchbook, Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, president of the Hollywood Costume Designers Guild, showcases more than 1,000 illustrations of costumes from classic motion pictures, many of the designs never before seen by the general public. In this stunning follow-up to her acclaimed Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, Landis tell the story of costume design from the birth of the movies to the present day—presenting the work of one hundred of the most provocative and pioneering costume design artists of the last century, including Pauline Annon, Cecil Beaton, Bonnie Cashin, Joe De Yong, and Charles LeMaire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010592645

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The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger
Publisher : Star Trek
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Costume
ISBN : 067179101X

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Star Trek, the Motion Picture, Make-your-own Costume Book by Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger Pdf

Step-by-step directions for creating complete outfits just like those worn in the motion picture "Star Trek." Includes background "historical" data about the Star Trek worlds.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film by Anonim Pdf