Fashion as Cultural Translation
eBook - ePub

Fashion as Cultural Translation

Signs, Images, Narratives

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fashion as Cultural Translation

Signs, Images, Narratives

About this book

The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main reference), the book crosses some of the main aspects of the contemporary culture of the clothed body: from time and space, to gender, to fashion as cultural translation, to the narratives included in the media convergence of our age. According to Jurji Lotman, fashion introduces the dynamic principle into seemingly inert spheres of the everyday. Fashion's unexpected function of overturning received meaning is conveyed through its collocation within the dynamic storehouse of what Lotman calls the "sphere of the unpredictable." In this horizon, the concept of fashion as a worldly system of sense (Benjamin) generates different "worlds" through its signs.

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Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781785272424
eBook ISBN
9781785272448
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Fashion as Cultural Translation in the Hyperconnected World
  7. Supplement to the Introduction: Fashion, The Hyperconnected World and Coronavirus
  8. Chapter 1 Time
  9. Chapter 2 Spaces
  10. Chapter 3 Fashion as Cultural Tradition: Italian Style
  11. Chapter 4 Fashion as Cultural Translation
  12. Chapter 5 Clothed Bodies
  13. Chapter 6 The Body as Text
  14. Chapter 7 Humans and Beyond
  15. Chapter 8 Fashion and the ‘Second Nature’
  16. Chapter 9 Fashion, Communication and Converging Media
  17. Chapter 10 Fashion Narratives in Visual Culture
  18. Conclusions: Fashion as an Idea about the Future
  19. References
  20. Index