Fashion in popular culture : literature, media and contemporary studies /
This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures. It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codifi...
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Intellect,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of Figures; Fashion in Contemporary Culture; Chapter 1: Brand This Way: Lady Gaga's Fashion as Storytelling Context to theGLBT Community; Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Anxiety: Strategic Ambiguity in Lisbeth Salander'sStyle-Fashion-Dress; Chapter 3: Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Appearance, and Subcultural Style; Chapter 4: Fashionable Addiction: The Path to Heroin Chic; Fashion in Media and Literature; Chapter 5: Dames and Design: Fashion and Appearance on Pulp Fiction Covers,1950-1960.
- Chapter 6: Territories of Knowledge and Nostalgia in Modern Fashion DesignerLife WritingChapter 7: Looking for Mr. Benson: The Black Leather Motorcycle Jacket andNarratives of Masculinities; Chapter 8: Fashion Photography, Phallocentrism, and Feminist Critique; Chapter 9: 'He Can't Love Me if I'm Ugly': The Recurring Theme of Popular Beautyin the Television Soap Opera Days of Our Lives; Chapter 10: Redressing the Devil's Wardrobe: Representing and Re-Readingthe Darker Side of Fashion in Chick Lit Novels; Fashion in Historical Context; Chapter 11: Redeeming the Voices of Reform.
- Chapter 12: The Language of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 13: The Devil of Fashion: Women, Fashion, and the Nation inEarly-Twentieth-Century German and Swedish Cultural Magazines; Chapter 14: Rome: Eternal City of Fashion and Film; List of Contributors; Index; Back Cover.