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Dressing dangerously: dysfunctional fashion in film

The output represents the culmination of an extensive and complex research project. This copiously illustrated 300 pp. book articulates a dense body of primary research materials with a complex thesis incorporating film, fashion and literary theory, establishing cinema as central to our understanding of dress. The publication operates on a number of visual and textual registers, providing in both text and imagery parallel investigations into the fictional representation of clothing. The elaboration of core concepts such as dysfunctional dress and negative cinematic wardrobe form a practical and psychological link between the fictional image and the viewer’s real experience of clothing.