(Packaged in black in white)Jeanette Delamoir provides a fascinating analysis of
Elizabethan court costume and its vocabulary, and dissects the notions of
women's film in relation to the topic. She points out that 'the film's meanings
of costume are associated with a modern ideology of the individual, and with the
pleasures of consumerism.' Furthermore, Delamoir notes that the meanings of
costume within the symbolic system of the Hollywood narrative [...] obscure the
meaning system of Elizabethan court costume, which was about power and empire
rather than individualism and identity.'