Textiles on Film is not only a pioneering and fundamental essay for integrating the study of the history and stories of cinema, but it also opens up a fascinating horizon of interdisciplinary research that can only enrich the studies of the "fantastic" dimension in film. * Ultracorpi [ Bloomsbury translation] * This book is an excellent addition to film studies as well as costume, fashion, and interior design programs ... Highly recommended [ for] all readership levels. * CHOICE * Peterson weaves her reflections into a complex and compelling tapestry of cultural, social and political meaning An important contribution to the literature in textile, film, production and costume design studies. * Studies in Costume & Performance * Analyzing textiles in film is a complex and nuanced line of inquiry and there was much for me to learn in Textiles on Film I feel I will now watch films with a heightened sensitivity and greater appreciation for fabrics role in the mise-en-scène and its use in a characters costume. * Surface Design Association * With poetic projection, cinematic and textual interleaving, and metaphorically transgressive seduction, Peterson cross-stitches magic onto celluloid as she shimmers behind, between and before the membrane of textile and film this book transports us variously to merged worlds of satin, synthetic, glamour, grotesque and the fantastic. * Catherine Harper, The British University in Egypt, Egypt * Building on the current materialist turn of film studies, Textiles on Film foregrounds the expressive importance of fabric in film. Bringing textile and film studies together, Peterson draws out the many ways in which it is textiles themselves that help to shape mood, meaning and feeling in the cinema. * Saige Walton, The University of South Australia, Australia *
