Chapter 5 Far From Heaven: Creative Agency, Social History and the Expressive Potential of Costume

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: The History of Nostalgia 11
7. Chapter 2 The Fifties: Nostalgia’s Privileged Object and the Origins of its Dominant American Strain 39
8. Chapter 3 The Nostalgia Film in Practice and Theory 67
9. Chapter 4 Sin City: Reading the Tails of a Populuxe Prop 93
10. Chapter 5 Far From Heaven: Creative Agency, Social History and the Expressive Potential of Costume 117
11. Chapter 6 The Aviator: Deliberate Archaism, Technicolor Aesthetics and Style as Substance 139
12. Conclusion: The Good German and the Good of Nostalgia 163
13. Filmography 175
14. References 181
15. Index 191