HNAR-348: Fashion ON Film

This course is an examination of films and documentaries that attempt to depict and reveal 20th and 21st fashion designers and the impact they have on our times. The collection of films the course will study will be a nonlinear promenade through design histories revealing the predicaments that face contemporary society and their implications of identity amidst globalization. The course will explore the trials film faces depicting fashion questioning what typecasts may emerge or what advantageous information is revealed. Films curated for the course vary from new world fashion, to popular movements and films that set trends, to first collections at the helm of major fashion houses, to tongue-in-cheek mockery of the fashion industry all realizing vital design production needs and developments. The zoom remote course will be presented through lectures, screenings by stream, readings, discussions, and research writing assignments. This course provides that students will analyze the distinctive traits of film that can or cannot communicate the complications and details of design. This course introduces students to the necessities of film analysis and helps students develop the skills to recognize, analyze, and describe film and design themes investigated by the course.