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Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing, Painting, Breakdown, and Special Effects for Costumes - Erin Carignan - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dyeing for Entertainment encompasses a wide range of methods of theatrical painting and dyeing to create beautiful artistic products for theatre, film, TV, opera, and themed entertainment. Featuring examples from renowned international artisans in the field, this book provides a wealth of information on creating and changing colors, prints, and surface textures of fabric using traditional and nontraditional costume, scenic, fine-art, and metal-smithing techniques. It also includes new, safer materials and methods to minimize exposure to toxic materials and fumes. With more than 250 full-color images, this technical manual is designed to guide and inspire new artists in the collaborative art of painting, dyeing, ageing, and slinging blood and bling on costumes that is an essential part of creating characters for the entertainment industry. Written for undergraduate and graduate students of costume design and technology, professional dyers and breakdown artists, and cosplayers, this book can be used as a reference and springboard to create your own magical processes, custom fabrics, and unforgettable costumes. To access the online materials, including printable swatch sheets, a collection of relevant safety data sheets, and a source guide with links, visit www.routledge.com/9780815352327.

DKK 401.00

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A Working Costume Designer’s Guide to Fit - Jeanette Dejong - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Working Costume Designer’s Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes – what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it. Being able to assess whether a costume fits or not is a learned skill, which takes practice as well as information about what the fit standards are for different types of garments. Filled with detailed step-by-step illustrations, this book provides all the knowledge readers will need in order to achieve the perfect fit for their costumes, including: - How costumes can support actors onstage when they fit correctly - How to take measurements and how to assess them - How to conduct a fitting and what materials are needed - How to resolve a number of issues that may arise during a fitting - How to fit a mockup test garment in preparation for building a costume from scratch - How to adjust a garment or mockup to fit better Chapters 8-14 also explore different categories of garments and discuss how to check them against the wearer’s measurements before trying them on, what the standards of fit are for each category, and how to fit an existing garment. This is an essential guide for students of Costume Design courses and professional costume designers of any experience level.

DKK 288.00

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Staging Dance - Susan Cooper - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Staging Dance is a practical handbook that covers all aspects of putting on a dance production. It highlights the current diversity of dance activities, choosing examples from working dance groups and from individual dancers.The book includes sections on choreography, music and sound, designing and making sets and costumes, lighting design and technical implementation and stage management. Funding, planning and publicity are also covered. Staging Dance will prove invaluable not only to dance artists, but also those working along side them: musicians, designers, lighting technicians, administrators and directors.

DKK 546.00

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A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color - Jeanette Dejong - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Working Costume Designer''s Guide to Color provides readers with the skills and knowledge to create coherent color schemes for costumes. Drawing on decades of experience in the costume shop, the author guides readers through every step of the process, from finding inspiration for a color scheme and successfully working with the design team to understanding how lighting design can affect costume color choices. Filled with step-by-step illustrations of how to add colors to a set of renderings and color-block samples to illustrate color theory, terminology, and usage of colors, the book covers a wide range of topics, including: - - How to add colors to a set of renderings to clarify characters and character relationships. - - - How color interacts with surface pattern and fabric textures. - - - Color theory and terminology. - - - How to combine colors to make a coherent color scheme using different methods, including using dominant, supporting, and accent colors. - - - How to flatter actors while staying within an overall color scheme. - - - Color meanings in different cultures and for different time periods. - - - How to manage costume changes to preserve or extend a color scheme. - A valuable resource for students of costume design courses and professional costume designers, A Working Costume Designer''s Guide to Color provides readers with the tools to create harmonious color schemes that will enhance the look of a production as whole.

DKK 292.00

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Playful Performers - David Binkley - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

African children develop aesthetic sensibilities at an early age, roughly from four to fourteen years. By the time they become full-fledged adolescents they may have had up to ten years experience with various art forms--masking, music, costuming, dancing, and performance. Aesthetic learning is vital to their maturation. The contributors to this volume argue that the idea that learning the aesthetics of a culture only occurs after maturity is false, as is the idea that children wearing masks is only play, and is not to be taken seriously. Playful Performers is a study of children''s masquerades in Africa. The contributors describe specific cases of young children''s masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa, which also happen to be the major areas of adult masquerading. The volume reveals the considerable creativity and ingenuity that children exhibit in preparing costumes, masks and musical instruments, and in playing music, dancing, singing, and acting. The book includes over 50 pages of black and white photographs, which illustrate and elaborate upon the authors'' main points. The editors describe general categories of children''s masquerades. In each of the three masking categories children''s relationships to their parents and other adults differ, from a close relationship to some independence to almost complete independence. No other major work has covered this aspect of African children at this age level. The book offers a challenging perspective on young children, seeing them as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders. It will be interesting reading for anthropologists, art historians, educators, and African studies specialists alike.

DKK 901.00

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Understanding Elvis - Susan M. Doll - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Although the importance of Elvis Presley''s Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer''s career and his Southern roots. This study investigates how that identity affected each stage of Presley''s career. Elvis Presley''s career can be divided into three phases, each of which is signified by a specific image. Each image is coded by a certain style of music, mode of dress, and arena of performance. The evolution from one career phase to another was instigated by a specific event and represented a deliberate calculation on the part of Presley''s manager to attract a wider audience. The first stage spans the years 1956 through 1958, after the singer was introduced to a national audience and before he was drafted into the army. His image as a notorious rock ''n'' roller created a national controversy and was spurred by negative depictions of Presley in the media-many attributing his controversial performing style and appearance to his Southern background. His music was a fusion of rhythm and blues and country-western; or, two types of music indigenous to the South and foreign to the mainstream entertainment industry based in New York City. The second phase of Elvis'' career included his stint as a movie star, in which most aspects of his Southern identity were extracted from his leading man image to enhance his appeal to the mainstream. And, finally, the last stage of his career focused on his image as a Las Vegas performer. Despite the gaudy costumes, Elvis reconnected to his identity as a Southerner in the 1970s by returning to country music and songwriters as a source of inspiration.

DKK 1070.00

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