In light of Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Rosie Best returns to the novel and explores how writer and director manipulate one character’s… Read more “Du Maurier, Danvers and dress: clothes and characterisation in Rebecca”
Category: Film
Conflicting costumes: Lena Horne and colourism
The inconsistencies of Lena Horne’s on-screen image bespeak a star system’s complex relationship with race and ethnicity.
Frozen Fashion: the importance of Queen Elsa’s costumes
The Ice Queen’s costumes play an important part in the film’s storytelling, and in marking her out as a complex and nuanced Disney woman
‘There’s A Million Guys Like Me’: Gene Kelly and ordinary masculinity
Gene Kelly’s on-screen costumes reveal a star preoccupied with his own masculinity
Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Chloë Grace Moretz impresses in a conventional yet charming YA drama
Why mockneys need to sling their ‘ook
It’s time to have a butcher’s at the problem with mockneys in the media
Must-follow Instagrams for film lovers
Five Instagram accounts that bring cinema’s stars to the small(est) screen
Art Goes APES**T
Does hip hop really belong in the Louvre? The Carters’ ‘APES**T’ is more than a music video.
Review: Ocean’s 8
An all-star cast is let down by direction and writing
Costume in Cléo de 5 à 7
What can we learn from trio of costumes at the heart of Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7?
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