Below-the-(Hem)line:Storytelling as Collective Resistance in Costume Design
Warner, Helen (2018) Below-the-(Hem)line:Storytelling as Collective Resistance in Costume Design. Feminist Media Histories, 4 (1). pp. 37-57. ISSN 2373-7492
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Abstract
This article examines the storytelling practices of a particular community of “below-the-line” practitioners: costume designers. Their stories are often written out of media histories that privilege the testimonies of above-the-line (typically male) professionals. This article provides a corrective to these androcentric accounts of media production. Using material gathered from the Costume Designers Guild’s official publication, the Costume Designer (launched in 2005), I apply a gendered lens to the examination of trade stories and argue that the stories costume designers tell can be understood as radical acts of “speaking out” against a neoliberal production culture that attempts to silence them.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2018 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2020 00:42 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65959 |
DOI: | 10.1525/fmh.2018.4.1.37 |
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