O espetáculo da moda no cinema hollywoodiano : uma análise comparativa dos filmes Cinderela em Paris e O diabo veste Prada

Abstract

This thesis aims at the analysis and interpretation of the possible relationship between fashion and Hollywood cinema and the action of these phenomena on the cultural aspects of women within the Western capitalist contemporary society. The film, which has the image as the main vehicle of communication, collaborates with the spread of fashion, and its meaning is constructed through a representation that tends to universalize the customs and lifestyles of this society. As for specific objectives, it sought to describe the construction of fashion in modernity, describe and interpret the relationship between fashion and film and, final, describe, analyze and interpret the social function of fashion in Jo Stockton characters in Cinderella in Paris, and Andrea Sachs in The devil wears Prada. To develop such reflection, the work was based on documentary and bibliographic research, with theoretical and main support authors references as Alcântara, Bauman, Bourdieu, Crane, Godartm Hall, Lipovetsky, Simmel, among others, passing on the issues and up essential settings to the understanding of the reader, such as social and psychosocial function clothing and fashion settings, cinema, distinction, habitus and the connection between these phenomena