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Design for Stage and Screen: General History & Theory of Costume & Dress

General History & Theory of Costume & Dress

◼ Ash, J. and Wilson, E. (eds), Chic Thrills: a Fashion Reader, London, Harper Collins, 1997. Call number: 746.92 CHI

◼ Barbieri, Donatella. Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture, and the Body. London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2017. eBook

◼ Barnard, Malcolm. Fashion as Communication. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Call number: 391 BAR

◼ Barthes, Roland. “The Diseases of Costume” in Collins and Nisbet (eds.) Theatre and Performance Design pp 204-210. Call number: 792.025 THE

◼ Bayley, Stephen. Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Call number: 306.4 BAY

◼ Breward, Christopher and Caroline Evan (eds.) Fashion and Modernity. Oxford: Berg, 2005. Call number: 391.001 BRE

◼ Calefato, Patricia. The Clothed Body. Oxford: Berg, 2004. Call number: 391 CAL

 Corrigan, Peter. The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World. London; Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008. eBook

◼ Craik, Jennifer. Uniforms Exposed: From Conformity to Transgression. Oxford, Berg, 2005. Call number: 391 CRA

◼ De Marly, Diana. Fashion for Men: An Illustrated History. London: Batsford, 1985. Call number: 746.92 MAR

 ◼ De La Haye, Amy and Elizabeth Wilson (eds). Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press and St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Call number: 391.009 DEF

◼ Emberley, Julia V. Venus and Furs: the Cultural Politics of Fur. London: Tauris IB, 1998. Call number: 306.4 EMB

◼ English, Bonnie. A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries From Catwalk to Sidewalk. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Call number: 391.00904 ENG

◼ Hollander, Anne. Feeding the Eye: Essays. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Call number: 391 HOL

◼ Hollander, Anne. Seeing Through Clothes. Berkeley, University of California. 1993. Call number: 704.942 HOL

◼ Keplan, Joel H. and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994. Call number: 792.0941 KAP

◼ Kuchta, David. The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Call number: 391.10942 KUC

◼ Laver, James. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Call number: 391.009 LAV

◼ Laver, James. Dress: How and Why Fashions in Men’s and Women’s Clothes Have Changed During the Past Few Hundred Years. London: Murray Publishing, 1996. Call number: 391.009 LAV

◼ Martin, Richard. Fashion and Surrealism. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Call number: 756.92 MAR

◼ Maynard, Margaret. Dress and Globalisation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. Call number: 391 MAY

◼ Monks, Aoife. The Actor in Costume. London and New York: Palgrave, 2010. Call number: 792.026 MON

◼ Muller, Florence. Art and Fashion. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. Call number: 391 MUL

◼ Peacock, John. Fashion Sourcebooks: The 1930s. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Call number: 746.92/PEA

◼ Polhemus, Ted. Diesel: World Wide Wear. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. Call number: 746.92 POL

◼ Steele, Valerie The Red Dress. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2001. Call number: 391.2 STE

◼ Steele, Valerie. The Corset: A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Call number: 391.42 STE

◼ Taylor, Lou. The Study of Dress History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. Call number: 391.009 TAY

◼ Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. London, I.B. Tauris, 2003. Call number: 391.009 WIL