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Studies in Costume & Performance 7.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Studies in Costume & Performance 7.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Costume and Fairy Tales’

While the relationship between fashion and the fairy tale has been examined in the fields of fashion studies and fairy-tale criticism, the concept of costume in the fairy tale has not yet been sufficiently explored. This Special Issue on ‘Costume and Fairy Tales’, with its interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach, offers fresh insight into the fields of costume studies, fairy-tale studies, performance studies, and, more broadly, studies of art, narrative and culture across time, space and discipline.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-costume-performance

Aims & Scope

Studies in Costume & Performance is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that aims to encourage, generate and disseminate critical discourse on costume and the relationship between costume and performance. It considers costume as a symbiotic articulation of the body of the performer which is visual, cultural, political, material, temporal and performative. Whether performed live, mediated through a screen, or encountered in an archive, costume embodies and reflects not only the performance, but also societies, cultures and communities.

Issue 7.2

Editorial

‘Costume and Fairy Tales’

MAYAKO MURAI

Articles

The hirahira aesthetics of wrinkled skin: Notes on an ageing dancer in the contemporary ballet world

KATSUHIKO SUGANUMA

Puss in Boots, ballerina in breeches

KARIN LANGER

One of the thorny kind: The Red Queen’s organic armour in Alice through the Looking Glass (2016)

CATH DAVIES

Red capes, dog gods and demon lords: Making historically plausible Inuyasha cosplay costumes