Stage Costume Design and Technology

Author: Pan Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: This textbook, as well as the stage costume section of theatrical character costume design and technology, aims to inspire readers' interest in this field, providing them with a key to approach and interpret stage costumes. It includes systematic knowledge such as the functions of stage performance costumes, design elements and principles, style and patterns, design procedures, structural characteristics, materials, and colors. It can serve as a textbook for professional learners, as well as a guide for self-learners and enthusiasts to understand this discipline. Corresponding reflection questions and practical exercises are provided after each chapter. This textbook is a culmination of years of teaching and performance practice. During the outline development, it benefited from extensive guidance from peers in the field and was repeatedly refined. It primarily draws upon Professor Douglas Ross's multiple monographs on stage costumes from Stanford University's Department of Theatre and Performance, compiling relevant academic publications, selecting, organizing, and structuring them into this work.