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Theatre/Film/TV Costume

Dressing a Galaxy: The Costume of Star Wars Limited Edition with DVD
Dressing a Galaxy : The Costumes of Star Wars

 

Costume Design (Screencraft) Yummy, yummy, interesting book

Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire

Amazon.com: Books: Ingenue in White: Reflections of a Costume Designer (Art of Theater Series)

DVD: Fashion for the Theatre DVD

Court and Conquest

Costume in Greek Classic Drama
Amazon.com: Books: Ingénue in White: Reflections of a Costume Designer (Art of Theater Series)

Hollywood Costume Design by Travilla (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography
 
 Hollywood and history : costume design in film
 
 Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film

Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past

Shakespeare on Screen

The Theater of the Bauhaus

Edith Head : The Life and Times of Hollywood's Celebrated Costume Designer

The Lion King : Pride Rock on Broadway

Titus: The Illustrated Screenplay

Eiko on Stage

Not Only Erte, a PDF pamphlet ad for a book on designs & designers for the Paris music halls, with many pictures

Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects

The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: The European Context

Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres

Kabuki Costume

The Art of Gormenghast

Wings : Backstage With Cirque Du Soleil!!!

Fellini : Costumes and Fashion

Ballets Russes

Entertainment Design [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

From Page to Stage : How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images

Costumes for the Stage: A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Play

Dressed for Thrills: One Hundred Years of Halloween Costume and Masquerade

Bakst : The Art of Theater & Dance (Temporis Series)

From Russia With Love : Costumes for the Ballets Russes 1909-1933 

Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup

Ziegfeld Follies Paper Dolls in Full Color

Paris Modern : The Swedish Ballet 1920-1925 , Nancy Van Norman Baer

Theatre in Revolution : Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935, Nancy Van Norman Baer

Screen Style: Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood

Hollywood Dressed & Undressed : A Century of Cinema Style

  Kabuki Costumes Paper Dolls

Chinese Opera Costumes Paper Dolls

Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera : Images and Stories

Peking Opera (Images of Asia)

Costume Design in the Movies : An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers

Patterns for Theatrical Costumes : Garments, Trims, and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915

The Costume Designer's Handbook : A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers Rosemary Ingham & Elizabeth Covey.  The standard textbook on costume design.  Illustrated in B&W and Color.

The Costume Technician's Handbook : A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians  Rosemary Ingham & Elizabeth Covey.  The standard textbook on costume construction and costume shop management.  Excellent information on drafting, cutting, shop equipment, and forms.  This is the improved and expanded text of the old, beloved, The Costumer's Handbook. Illustrated in B&W and Color.

 
The Corset: A Cultural History

Costumes by Karinska

Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941

Costume Design 101 : The Art and Business of Costume Design for Film and Television

Costume Design : Techniques of Modern Masters

Geoffrey Holder: A Life in Theater, Dance, and Art

DESIGNING STAGE COSTUMES

Absolutely Mardi Gras: Costume and Design of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras

From Russia With Love: Costumes for the Ballets Russes 1909-1933

  Undressing Cinema : Clothing and Identity in the Movies

Fashion in Film

Fashion in Film : Men

Theatre and Fashion : Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes

 

Mask of Reality : An Approach to Design for Theatre

 

Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color

The Art of Ballets Russes : The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Moulin Rouge: The Splendid Illustrated Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture

 

Planet of the Apes: Reimagined by Tim Burton (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)

 

Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

Costume and Cinema : Dress Codes in Popular Film

 

Picturing the Past : The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film

 

Fashioning the Nation : Costume and Identity in British Cinema

 

Film Costume : An Annotated Bibliography

 

The Art of Sleepy Hollow

Bronislava Nijinska : A Dancer's Legacy ,Nancy Van Norman Baer

From Russia With Love : Costumes for the Ballets Russes 1909-1933

Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes and Its World

Picasso's Parade : From Street to Stage

How to Dress Dancers : Costume Techniques for Dance

The Art of Ballets Russes : The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

 

The Theater of the Bauhaus; Oskar Schlemmer

Historic Costume for the Stage, Lucy Barton

Great Characters from Shakespeare Paper Dolls

Fashioning the Nation : Costume and Identity in British Cinema; Pam Cook

Stage Costume Step-By-Step : The Complete Guide to Designing and Making Stage Costumes for All Major Drama Periods and Genres

The Art of Enchantment : Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1909-1929 Nancy Van Norman Baer (Editor)

Costume on the stage, 1600-1940 Diana De Marly

Leon Bakst : Set and Costume Designs, Book Illustrations, Paintings and Graphic Works Irina Pruzhan, Arthur Shkarovski-Raffe

Scenic and Costume Design for the Ballets Russes (Theatre and Dramatic Studies, No 30) Robert Craig Hansen

Set and Costume Designs for Ballet and Theater Alexander Schouvaloff

Star Style : Hollywood Legends As Fashion Icons; Patty Fox

Hollywood Jewels : Movies, Jewelry, Stars; Penny Proddow

Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres; Jean MacIntyre

Dressing the Part : Sternberg, Dietrich, and Costume; Sybil Delgaudio

Fantastic Costumes of Trades & Professions : An Album of 36 17th Cent. Engravings; Nicolas De L'Armessin, Gerard Valck

Film Costume : An Annotated Bibliography; Susan Perez

Jewelry of the Stars : Creations from Joseff of Hollywood; Joanne Dubbs Ball

Kabuki Costume; Ruth M. Shaver

Leon Bakst : The Theatre Art; Alexander Schouvaloff

Mask of Reality : An Approach to Design for Theatre; Irene Corey

Theatre on Paper; Alexander Schouvaloff

Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court; Jones I

Hollywood and History : Costume Design in Film; Edward Maeder

Hollywood Costume : Glamour, Glitter, Romance; Dale. McConathy

Hollywood Costume Design; David Chierichetti

My Costumes; Emi Wada

Russian Theater and Costume Designs from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Cecil Beaton : Stage and Film Designs (Art and Design Monograph) Vol 1 , Charles Spencer

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