Fashion Film: Art and Advertising in the Digital Age

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The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving image in the promotion, communication and spectacle of contemporary fashion. Combining interdisciplinary analysis of cinema and digital culture, this ground-breaking book traces the emergence of fashion film in the 21st century through its historical roots in pre-digital forms of photography, experimental cinema, mass-media advertising and documentary film-making, right up to today’s visual spread of contemporary fashion on video blogs, online magazines and live-streamed catwalk shows. Examining collaborations between fashion designers and pioneering image-makers such as Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goode, William Klein and Nick Knight, the book highlights the critical tension between the fashion film conceived as a creative endeavour and as commercial enterprise. Fashion Film also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion. Accessible and well-illustrated, Fashion Film will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, film, media, photography, celebrity, sociology and cultural studies. Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Fashion Film—The Long and Short of It Part 1 Promotion: Digital Fashion Film Visual communications Hyper-advertising and the mini-film event Branded experience, artistic exploration, and cultural critique Hybrid content: Fashion film and music video Editorial convergence and spreadable content Film and branded entertainment Conceptual fashion film Narrative fashion film Commodity auteurism Promotional genres Notes Part 2 Process: Documentary Fashion Film Behind the scenes The staging of labor In and out of fashion with William Klein Backstage with Loïc Prigent Reframing fashion history Filming everyday fashion The fashion photographer on film The fashion model on film Notes Part 3 Personalities: Designer Fashion Film Masters of style Designer lives Curating Chanel Documenting Dior All about Yves The Warhol legacy Notes Conclusion: The End of Fashion Film Bibliography Index