Costume-these three are inter-woven in terms of how costume is used and revealed (A map for analysis of any film)
Narrative:
o Tells a story
o Charts a decline/ incline in character’s journey
o Semiotic value in a film
o Inner-emotional, psychological journey of character
Spectacle:
o Pleasure of looking
o Costume exists in the realm of the visual
o Degree of desire
o Utilizes tools of line, colour, mass, repetition, silhouette, reveal/conceal, texture
Ideology:
o Costume reflects the socio economic factors of the time
o Reflects shifts in social fabrication
o Reflects the role of women in society, racial and democratic shifts
o Consumerism-Films used to sell ideas eg. Racial liberation, national identity etc.
o What does it mean?
Period Films:
o Past is imagined through the present
Binaries of Film-a fabrication by society which needs to express itself in some way:
o Active/ Passive
o Look/ To be looked at
o Brains/ Beauty
o The Illusive
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