Abstract
This article examines the storytelling practices of a particular community of
“below-the-line” practitioners: costume designers. Their stories are often written out of media histories that privilege the testimonies of above-the-line (typically male) professionals. This article provides a corrective to these androcentric accounts of media production. Using material gathered from the Costume Designers Guild’s official publication, the Costume Designer (launched in 2005), I apply a gendered lens to the examination of trade stories and argue that the stories costume designers tell can be understood as radical acts of “speaking out” against a neoliberal production culture that attempts to silence them.
“below-the-line” practitioners: costume designers. Their stories are often written out of media histories that privilege the testimonies of above-the-line (typically male) professionals. This article provides a corrective to these androcentric accounts of media production. Using material gathered from the Costume Designers Guild’s official publication, the Costume Designer (launched in 2005), I apply a gendered lens to the examination of trade stories and argue that the stories costume designers tell can be understood as radical acts of “speaking out” against a neoliberal production culture that attempts to silence them.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 37-57 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Feminist Media Histories |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 9 Jan 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Profiles
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Helen Warner
- School of Media, Language and Communication Studies - Associate Professor in Media and Digital Cultures
- Media Equality - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
- Gender and Its Intersections - Member
- Politics & International Relations - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching and Research