{"title":"Fabulous folds: revolutionary costumes in Grey Gardens (1975)","authors":"Ilona Hongisto, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi","doi":"10.1080/20004214.2020.1840087","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay discusses the material agency of clothing in the celebrated documentary classic Grey Gardens (David and Albert Maysles, USA 1975). Drawing on the extraordinary relationship between the protagonists, their clothing, the filming location, and the filmmakers, the essay shows how the protagonists of the documentary “think up” costumes that enable them to temporarily exceed difficult living conditions. The essay names the thought-up costumes fabulous folds and accounts for the ways in which costumes activate novel possibilities in the body’s relationship to its environment.","PeriodicalId":43229,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aesthetics & Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20004214.2020.1840087","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Aesthetics & Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2020.1840087","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay discusses the material agency of clothing in the celebrated documentary classic Grey Gardens (David and Albert Maysles, USA 1975). Drawing on the extraordinary relationship between the protagonists, their clothing, the filming location, and the filmmakers, the essay shows how the protagonists of the documentary “think up” costumes that enable them to temporarily exceed difficult living conditions. The essay names the thought-up costumes fabulous folds and accounts for the ways in which costumes activate novel possibilities in the body’s relationship to its environment.
摘要本文论述了著名纪录片《灰色花园》(David and Albert Maysles,USA 1975)中服装的物质代理。本文利用主人公、他们的服装、拍摄地点和电影制作人之间的非凡关系,展示了纪录片的主人公如何“想出”服装,使他们能够暂时摆脱困难的生活条件。文章将经过思考的服装命名为神话般的褶皱,并说明服装在身体与环境的关系中激活新奇可能性的方式。