This study examines the creation and meaning of Hindi film costume in the context of the city of Mumbai and those involved in costume design. Drawing on ideas from film studies and
anthropology, including the study of dress, craft and production, material culture, and the body, the author considers the processes of planning and making costumes and what these processes
reveal about aspects of urban and industrial life. She describes the environment in which costumes are created, how costume impacts performance and the actor’s transformation into a character,
how costume modifies or affects the body, how it is a marker of modernity, historical costumes and the past, the passage of costumes and costume ideas into the public domain, and how the forces
that make film costume are involved in the production of fashion. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
