Screen Search Fashion
Jane Devine Mejia and Malcolm McInnes, University of Brighton
This presentation is about Screen Search Fashion, an online resource that provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East’s (SASE) collections. The selected themes guide you through the collections, using stills and clips from the archive. These enable you to discover more about the different types of clothing worn, ...
Abstract
This presentation is about Screen Search Fashion, an online resource that provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East’s (SASE) collections.
The selected themes guide you through the collections, using stills and clips from the archive. These enable you to discover more about the different types of clothing worn, and their historical and design contexts. There are links to records in the Screen Search online database, where the films can be explored in further detail, as well as links to related resources held in archives, libraries and museums.
This resource is the result of a year long, CETLD-funded project, carried out at the Royal College of Art and Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton.
Screen Archive South East – Fashion, Memory and the Moving Image film
Biographies
Jane Devine Mejia is a collections development manager at Screen Archive South East (SASE), University of Brighton. Her work focuses on teaching and learning with archive film, including projects with undergraduate and postgraduate classes. She uses Web-based social media, such as Community@brighton, as part of the initiative to expand use of SASE’s collections within higher education.
Malcolm McInnes is leader of the Fashion and Textiles course, University of Brighton. He has designed women's and menswear collections in Italy, and launched his own labels in Milan to an international market. Fashion as narrative is an underlying strand of interest in his research practice, which is concerned with alternative representation of fashion other than the catwalk and photographic imaging.
