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Fashion in popular culture : literature, media and contemporary studies / edited by Joseph Hancock II, Toni Johnson-woods, and Vicki Karaminas.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Hancock, Joseph (Author, Editor), Johnson-Woods, Toni (Author, Editor), Karaminas, Vicki (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (sponsoring body.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2013.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Social aspects.
Fashion.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects
Fashion
History
Table of Contents:
  • Brand this way : Lady Gaga's fashion as storytelling context to the GLBT community / Joseph H. Hancock, II
  • Navigating cultural anxiety : strategic ambiguity in Lisbeth Salander's style-fashion-dress / Susan B. Kaiser
  • Australian gothic : Black light angels, appearance, and subcultural style / Vicki Karaminas
  • Fashionable addiction : the path to heroic chic / Alphonso D. McClendon
  • Dames and design : fashion and appearance on pulp fiction covers, 1950-1960 / Toni Johnson-Woods
  • Territories of knowledge and nostalgia in modern fashion designer life writing / Ilya Parkins
  • Looking for Mr. Benson : the black leather motorcycle jacket and narratives of masculinities / Marvin J. Taylor
  • Fashion photography, phallocentrism, and feminist critique / Louise Wallenbert
  • "He can't love me if I'm ugly": the recurring theme of popular beauty in the television soap opera Days of our lives / Andrew Reilly and Nancy A. Rudd
  • Redressing the devil's wardrobe : representing and re-reading the darker side of fashion in chick lit novels / Anne Peirsono-Smith
  • Redeeming the voices of reform / Patricia A. Cunningham
  • The language of luxury in eighteenth-century France / Paula von Wachenfeldt
  • The devil of fashion : women, fashion, and the nation in early-twentieth-century German and Swedish cultural magazines / Andrea Kollnitz
  • Rome : eternal city of fashion and film / Eugenia Paulicelli.

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