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Offers a substantive exploration of theatrical costume. Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 analyses the ways in which meaning is conveyed through costuming for the stage and explores the underlying assumptions embedded in theatrical practice and costume production.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
  • Chapter 1: Plus que Reine: The Napoleonic Revival in Belle Epoque Theatre and Fashion by Michele Majer
  • Chapter 2: Creating a Realistic Rendering Pedagogy: The Fashion Illustration Problem by Caitlin Quinn
  • Chapter 3: Where'd I Put My Character?: The Costume Character Body and Essential Costuming for the Ensemble Actor by Aly Renee Amidei
  • Chapter 4: Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Work by Kyla Kazuschyk
  • Chapter 5: Dressing the Image: Costumes in Printed Theatrical Advertising by David S. Thompson
  • Chapter 6: Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady’s Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America by Leah Lowe
  • Chapter 7: The RuPaul Effect: The Exploration of the Costuming Rituals of Drag Culture in Social Media and the Theatrical Performativity of the Male Body in the Ambit of the Everyday by Jorge Sandoval
  • Chapter 8: A Brand New Day on Broadway: The Genius of Geoffrey Holder’s Artistry and His Intentional Evocation of the African Diaspora by Gregory S. Carr
  • Chapter 9: “On the [Historical] Sublime”: J. R. Planché’s King John and the Romantic Ideal of the Past by Andrew Gibb
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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817370138, 978-0817370138
      ISBN10: 0817370137

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a substantive exploration of theatrical costume. Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 analyses the ways in which meaning is conveyed through costuming for the stage and explores the underlying assumptions embedded in theatrical practice and costume production.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
      • Chapter 1: Plus que Reine: The Napoleonic Revival in Belle Epoque Theatre and Fashion by Michele Majer
      • Chapter 2: Creating a Realistic Rendering Pedagogy: The Fashion Illustration Problem by Caitlin Quinn
      • Chapter 3: Where'd I Put My Character?: The Costume Character Body and Essential Costuming for the Ensemble Actor by Aly Renee Amidei
      • Chapter 4: Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Work by Kyla Kazuschyk
      • Chapter 5: Dressing the Image: Costumes in Printed Theatrical Advertising by David S. Thompson
      • Chapter 6: Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady’s Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America by Leah Lowe
      • Chapter 7: The RuPaul Effect: The Exploration of the Costuming Rituals of Drag Culture in Social Media and the Theatrical Performativity of the Male Body in the Ambit of the Everyday by Jorge Sandoval
      • Chapter 8: A Brand New Day on Broadway: The Genius of Geoffrey Holder’s Artistry and His Intentional Evocation of the African Diaspora by Gregory S. Carr
      • Chapter 9: “On the [Historical] Sublime”: J. R. Planché’s King John and the Romantic Ideal of the Past by Andrew Gibb
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