Fashion Film Festival


If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, crime and Violence Book Contents Preface If Looks Could Kill Marketa Uhlirova Introduction Dressed to Kill: Notes on Dress and Costume in Crime Literature and Film Elizabeth Wilson The Masks of Villains Making Fashion out of Nothing: The Invisible Criminal Tom Gunning The Face of Fear Roger Sabin The Killing Game: Glamorous Masks and Murderous Styles in Elio Petri’s La decima vittima Anna Battista The Eyes are Trapped: Dario Argento’s The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Betti Marenko Criminal Gestures, Transformations, Signatures Looking Sharp Barry Curtis and Claire Pajaczkowska Stained Clothing, Guilty Hearts Kitty Hauser A Question of Silence: Revisited Karen Alexander The Virgin-Whore Complex: Ms .45 and 1970s Feminism Jenni Sorkin Working Girl Turned Office Killer: The Onscreen Politics of Office Dressing Takes a Gothic Spin Gilda Williams Inside Out: Living Costumes in Brice Dellsperger’s Body Double (X) Drake Stutesman Criminal Desire, Possession and Transgression Fashioning Silent Film’s Thieves and Detectives Christel Tsilibaris Scandal, Satire and Vampirism in The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker Marketa Uhlirova Twenties Fashion, Ivor Novello and The Rat Bryony Dixon Asphalt, Theft and Seduction Werner Sudendorf The Economy of Desire Caroline Evans I Want That Mink! Film Noir and Fashion Petra Dominková The Red Shoes Hilary Davidson Peeling the Groomed Surface Models Murdered Charlie Porter Sometimes the Truth is Wicked: Fashion, Violence and Obsession in Leave Her to Heaven Rebecca Arnold and Adrian Garvey Plein Soleil: Style and Perversity on the Neopolitan Riviera Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson Death on the Runway: Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace and Arne Mattsson’s Mannequin in Red Tim Lucas Mannequin in Red: Death, and Desire in A Couture House Louise Wallenberg Desire and Death before the Apocalypse Román Gubern Delinquency, Dress and Power “So what!” Two tales of Juvenile Delinquency Roger K. Burton Smell of Female Cathi Unsworth On Gangster Suits and Silhouettes Lorraine Gamman Co-Conspirators Laura Mc-Lean Ferris Eloise Fornieles Shannon Plumb Elizabeth McAlpine Paulette Phillips Derrick Santini Boudicca Dino Dinco Wendy Bevan Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography Index