When we open our closet doors each morning, we seldom consider what our sartorial choices say, whether we tend toward jeans and a well-worn concert t-shirt or wingtips and a three-piece suit. Yet, how we dress divulges more than whether we crave comfort or couture; our clothing communicates who we are and how we relate to our culture. But how does a Balenciaga bag or a tough leather jacket topped by liberty spikes signify these things?

Fashion in Popular Culture considers this question. Combining fashion theory with approaches from literature, art, advertising, music, media studies, material studies, and sociology, contributors from across Europe, Australia, and the United States consider the function of fashion within popular culture. Fashion, they show, has the capacity to both influence and be influenced by popular culture, and its meaning is also contingent upon context. Chapters in the book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, addressing a variety of other questions, including the role fashion plays in subcultures.

For students and scholars of fashion and popular culture—or anyone fascinated by what clothing can convey—Fashion in Popular Culture offers an engaging, interdisciplinary analysis.

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Yes, you can access Fashion in Popular Culture by Joseph H. Hancock II, Toni Johnson-Woods, Vicki Karaminas, Joseph H. Hancock II,Doctor Toni Johnson-Woods,Vicki Karaminas, Joseph Hancock in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Fashion Design. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Social Sciences

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Fashion Design

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Social Sciences

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Brand This Way: Lady Gaga’s Fashion as Storytelling Context to the GLBT Community
Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Anxiety: Strategic Ambiguity in Lisbeth Salander’s Style-Fashion-Dress
Chapter 3: Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Appearance, and Subcultural Style
Chapter 4: Fashionable Addiction: The Path to Heroin Chic
Chapter 5: Dames and Design: Fashion and Appearance on Pulp Fiction Covers, 1950–1960
Chapter 6: Territories of Knowledge and Nostalgia in Modern Fashion Designer Life Writing
Chapter 7: Looking for Mr. Benson: The Black Leather Motorcycle Jacket and Narratives 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 Beauty in the Television Soap Opera Days of Our Lives
Chapter 10: Redressing the Devil’s Wardrobe: Representing and Re-Reading the Darker Side of Fashion in Chick Lit Novels
Chapter 11: Redeeming the Voices of Reform
Chapter 12: The Language of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France
Chapter 13: The Devil of Fashion: Women, Fashion, and the Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Swedish Cultural Magazines
Chapter 14: Rome: Eternal City of Fashion and Film
List of Contributors
Index
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
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9780745698991,

9781474278492,

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