Monday, September 20, 2010

Super Hero Garb

The History, Ideas, and Impacts of Comic Book Super Hero Costume Design for Film

An ever-widening number of comic book fans have continued to show their appreciation for this literature genre at cinema houses all over America.  Thanks to their support films such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight become the second highest grossing film of all time.  Batman hasn’t been the only success; movies featuring Iron man and Spiderman have also broken sales records for multi-million dollar earnings as well. Yet as interesting as this trend is, audiences recognize that excellent and imaginative design has been a part of the success of this genre also.  What design, of all of the potential categories that we could discuss, am I talking about? I am specifically talking about the costumes designed for the actors portraying these heroes and heroines.

The goal of this 15-part essay is to address a number of design questions.  How should the character the Flash’s costume be designed for his upcoming feature length movie? What topics should be taken into account when formulating this costume?   And what is the costume design history and trends in the garment design of super heroes.

To facilitate this dialogue, more than location will be used to collect material for this discussion.

Efforts were made to contact the makers of the images will see, if those efforts were unsuccessful due to the limited resources of this enterprise we hope an effort to reference the origin of these companies, creators, and individuals will be sufficient.  Ultimately though a critical tone may be apparent the creators of this blog desire that all participants understand the good of our presentation because of this work’s appearance or our attempts to participate in the general cultural dialogue presented.

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