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Research Resources for SCAD's Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta

Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design
NOW ON VIEW AT SCAD FASH

Photos: IMDB.com

SCADcast: 'On Creativity' with Ruth E. Carter

SCADcast: 'On Creativity' with Ruth E. Carter

About Ruth E. Carter

Crouch, D. (2020, February 7). Collaboration between H&M and Ruth E. Carter celebrates costume designer's work. Apparel News.
Johnson, K. (2017, October 17). Meet Ruth E. Carter: The costume designer behind Marvel's Black Panther. Black Enterprise.
Marine, B. (2019, February 7). How Ruth Carter, Black Panther costume designer and Oscar nominee, put a "Wakandan spin" on the film. W Magazine.
Ryzik, M. (February 27, 2018). The Afrofuturistic designs of ‘Black Panther’. The New York Times.
Moore, B. (2019, Feb 06). Eye: Ruth Carter on fame, fashion and hoping for that Oscar. WWD, 26.
Newman, S. (2019). Profile: Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black Panther. The Fashion Studies Journal.
St. Felix, D. & Erizku, A. (2018, September 10). Ruth E. Carter's threads of history. New Yorker.
Watson, J. W. (2013). Ruth Carter: Behind the 'seams'. Black Masks, 20(4), 5-6.

Selected Books

Afrofuterism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack
Publication Date: 2013
Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design by Tamar Clarke-Brown et al.
Publication Date: 2019
Costume Design for Video Games by Sandy Appleoff Lyons (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
Creating the Illusion: A Fashionable History of Hollywood Costume Designers by Jay Jorgensen; Donald L. Scoggins; Ali MacGraw (Foreword by); Turner Classic Movies
Publication Date: 2015
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
Haute Africa: People, Photography, Fashion by Christophe de Jaegher; Ramona Van Gansbeke
Publication Date: 2014
The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction by Barbara Brownie; Danny Graydon; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2015
Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design by Shura Pollatsek
Publication Date: 2016

Selected Videos

Amistad
Publication Date: 1999
Black Panther
Publication Date: 2018
The Butler
Publication Date: 2014
Chi-Raq
Publication Date: 2016
Do the Right Thing
Publication Date: 2001
Malcolm X
Publication Date: 2005
Marshall
Publication Date: 2018
Oldboy
Publication Date: 2013
Roots
Publication Date: 2016
Selma
Publication Date: 2015
Serenity
Publication Date: 2013
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Publication Date: 1999