Fashion Film as a Screen Form
https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2026-67-2-92-114
Abstract
The article searches into the artistic, aesthetic and sociocultural aspects of fashion films, as a new unique screen form, exploring the diverse social, cultural, aesthetic, etc. background of their emergence and the functioning of these small-scale film forms within the online media environment. The study analyzes the influence of a number of non-classical aesthetic phenomena (kitsch, camp, simulacre, intertext, hypertext, physicality etc.), as well as the aesthetics of the music video, on the fashion film in the 20th and 21st centuries, in the process of forming its visual and narrative structures.
About the Author
F. M. Provotorov
Russian State University of Cinematography n. a. S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Fedor M. Provotorov - post-graduate student, Russian State University of Cinematography n. a. S.A. Gerasimov (VGIK). AuthorID: 1341140.
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Provotorov F.M. Fashion Film as a Screen Form. Vestnik VGIK. 2026;18(2(68)):92-114. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2026-67-2-92-114
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