Fashioning Spanish Cinema

Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.

Jorge Pérez is Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin.

Paul Julian Smith, CUNY Graduate Center:
“Fashioning Spanish Cinema draws on an impressive range of disciplines, from the history of dress (which it carefully distinguishes from the related but distinct terms of fashion, costume, and wardrobe) to celebrity and gender studies. And its new focus retrieves much valuable and piquant history.”

Barbara Zecchi, Professor of Cinema & Iberian Studies, Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst:

"With its broad cultural scope and detailed analyses, at once wide-ranging and penetrating, fact-filled and engaging, Fashioning Spanish Cinema balances contextual exploration of fashion trends with close examinations of specific visual styles and film narratives. This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the connections between garments and issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and nationhood, thus revealing the role clothing plays in the articulation of identity. Jorge Pérez is a brilliant writer who continues to add compelling new dimensions to the scholarship on Spanish cinema. This book establishes him as one of the most original thinkers in the field of film studies."

Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan:

"Fashioning Spanish Cinema enriches the Spanish canon by adding an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of contemporary Spanish film production. Jorge Pérez offers an intelligent and well-informed critical approach to gender studies by analysing the impact that film costumes and film costume design have on both social change and the construction of gender identities. The book presents a well-theorized and innovative aspect of Iberian culture grounded in the knowledge of relevant scholarship on film, celebrity studies, and design studies, as well as feminist theory and gender studies. This is a significant contribution which will be of interest to graduate students and scholars of contemporary Spain."