Fashion in Film Festival: If Looks Could Kill will open at New York's Museum of the Moving Image on May 4th 2012. Find out more here.

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Full programme for Fashion in Film Festival 2012 in New York released. Find out more here.

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Fashion in Film's Kinoscopes available to tour. Find out more about their London and UK installations.

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Limited edition catalogue
The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival If Looks Could Kill limited edition catalogue is selling out fast. Available online, and in store at Tate Modern book shop, BFI Southbank Film Store and Cinéphilia.

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Texts now published online
All texts from our first catalogue (now sold out) are now available here.

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credits, sponsors and partners

Whitney Humanities Center
Auditorium
53 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511

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11-12 November, 2011

Borrowing the suggestive title 'Secrets of the Orient' from the 1928 German-French studio spectacular, the symposium will focus on the use of fashion, costume and mise en scène in the construction of an Orientalist imaginary in Western as well as Eastern cinema.

The symposium will bring together critics, historians, theoreticians and practitioners to discuss the crucial role that costume, sets and props have played in defining and illustrating Western visions of the East while at the same time pointing to films that unsettle, critique or reposition these fantastical visions. The symposium will consider how various aspects of "dressing" film (through movement, duration, texture etc.) or un/dressing in film construct cultural identity and "otherness" as well as a kind of "cosmopolitan body" that suggests a global vernacular erasing cultural difference.

Secrets of the East, dir Alexandre Volkoff, 1928. Courtesy of BFI.

Friday 11th November, 2011

4.00pm:
Welcome
Becky Conekin (European Studies Council, Yale University)

4:15pm:
Selling Orientalism in the Global Film Market: House of Flying Daggers, Costume and Blockbuster Aesthetics
Ron Gregg (Film Studies, Yale University)

5:00pm:
Entertainment Goes Oriental-mental: costuming late-19th and early-20th century Stage Magic, Theatre and Early Cinema
Marketa Uhlirova (Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London)

8:00pm :
Screening of Michelangelo Antonioni shorts followed by Latcho Drom (dir Tony Gatlif, 1993)
Special thanks to KG Productions and the Embassy of France

The Rajah's Casket, dir Gaston Velle, 1906. Courtesy of Lobster.

Saturday 12th November, 2011

9:30am:
The Art of Undressing: Automation and Exposure at the Margins of Cinema
Amy Herzog (Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY)

10:15am:
John Maybury and the London Underground
Alistair O'Neil (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)

11:15am
The Fabric of Film in Michelangelo Antonioni
Eugenia Paulicelli (Italian, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, Queens College, CUNY)

1:30pm
What Happened to Khadi?: Fashion and Female Stardom in Contemporary Indian Film and Politics
Anupama Kapse (Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY):

2:15pm:
New Mimesis: Wearing the Epistemological Shift
Jane Gaines (Film, Columbia University)

3:15pm:
Screening of The Great Invisible (dir Leslie Thornton, current project)

4:15pm:
Keynote speaker, author and New Yorker theatre critic Hilton Als
With an introduction by Louise Bernard (Beinecke Library, Yale University)

5:15pm:
Responses from John MacKay (Chair, Film Studies, Yale) and Moira Fradinger (Comparative Literature, Yale)

7:30pm:
Screening of Lupe (Jose Rodriduez-Soltero, 1967)
Introduced by Ron Gregg in conversation with star of Lupe, Mario Montez and actor Agosto Machado.

Lupe, dir Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966. Courtesy of Fashion in Film and Film Makers' Co-Operative.

Open to the general public
Admission free

Sponsor: Cultural Services of the Embassy of France; Calhoun College, Film Study Center, ITS Academic Technologies; Film Studies Program; KG Productions; the Museum of the Moving Image; and the Whitney Humanities Center. Of spe-cial note, this symposium was generously supported by the British Council, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund at Yale, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Contact Information: Katherine Germano, katherine.germano@yale.edu (203-436-4668)