Communicating fashion : clothing, culture, and media /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lascity, Myles Ethan (Author)
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover page
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Communicating Fashion
  • What is Communication?
  • Modeling Communication
  • Other Factors in Communication
  • Communication and/as Rhetoric
  • Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
  • Clothing and Fashion
  • Clothing in Modernity and Postmodernity
  • Communicating Clothing
  • 2 Clothing as Intra- and Interpersonal Communication
  • Why Do We Wear Clothing?
  • Clothing, Our "Self" and Our Subjective Positions
  • Getting to Know Ourselves
  • Performances, Identity and Ambivalence
  • Intra- and Interpersonal Communication
  • Meaningful and Meaningless Clothing
  • Power, Conformity and Individuality
  • 3 Clothing Dynamics in Groups and Cultures
  • Groups, Clothing and Perspectives
  • Uniforms among Cultures and Groups
  • Grouping Groups
  • Theories of Groups and Clothing
  • Clothing Within a Culture
  • Subcultural and Style Tribes
  • 4 Fashion: Systems, Meaning, and Time
  • Fashion as a System
  • Simmel's Trickle-down Fashion
  • Alternative Understandings of Fashion
  • Meaning, Clothing and the Fashion System
  • Now Trending . . .
  • About Time
  • The End of Fashion?
  • 5 Clothing, News, and Tastemaking
  • A (Very) Brief History of Journalism, Fashion and Clothing
  • Community Building Through the Media
  • Media's Influence: Theories of Agenda-Setting and Framing
  • Tastemakers in the Media
  • Fragmentation and Contemporary Tastemakers
  • A Bit on Fashion Photography
  • 6 Clothing on Film and Television
  • Culture and Mediums
  • A Brief History of Film and Television
  • Film, Television
  • Fashion, Costume
  • Cultural Studies and Reading the Media
  • Representation Issues
  • "Reading" Texts and Costumes
  • Fashion and Celebrity Culture
  • Fashion News, Criticism and "Reality" Television
  • Digital Fashion Films and Documentaries
  • Cultivation Theory
  • 7 Ads, Brands, and Retail Considerations
  • A Brief History of Fashion Brands
  • Brands as a Social Construct
  • Tangible Brand Communications
  • Intangible Brand Communication
  • Financial and Market Creations
  • The Use (and Abuse) of History
  • 8 Digital Communication, Social Media, and Mediatization
  • Some History and Theory of the Web
  • Updating Ourselves
  • Updating the Media
  • So You Want to be an Influencer?
  • Changes in Retail and Shopping
  • Mediatization, Algorithms and Apps
  • 9 Fashion, Clothing and/as Art
  • What is Art?
  • Clothing, Art Worlds and Artification
  • Clothing, Fashion and the Museum
  • Museums and Curation as Cultural Intermediation
  • Influence of Art and Museums
  • Fashion and Music
  • Fashion, Art and Promotional Culture
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index