Communicating fashion : clothing, culture, and media /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),
2021.
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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